Structure
one; Democracy needs citizens:
Structure one is the most important in all
democracies. Democracies needs citizens. Citizens do not need democracies.
Citizens are the most important people; they are the costumers paying all the
dues of who they elect to lead them. They would want the best for their
shillings. Citizens accept that their loyalty is to the processes their share
must override the loyalty to their own political side. (Kenya) Kenyans
leadership understands the idea of “loyal opposition.” Kenyans have grown to accept the legitimacy
of a government run by their opponents, assured that they will have their turn
when the time comes.
Citizens should not use political space to destroy the
ability of their opponents to operate in peaceful electoral systems. They must
accept the lawfulness of dissension, even enthusiastic protests. They must rule
out the use of force at all cost for political gains. A country without common citizens
is poised on the edge of break up or civil war.
Structure
two: democracy needs guardians;
Guardians hold positions of political appointments, (like
Judges) Bureaucratic (ministries,MPs,RDCs,
chairpersons, etc) law and order (internal affairs, police) and military
power. What makes them guardians is that
they must always be the one to check and keep in check all the aspects of
Checks and Balances, and guard the moral law in accordance with objective rules
or in favor of the commonweal. Queen Elizbeth is a great example of this. The
motive of the guardians should not be to seek power. Although powerful is the
appointments. Power follows wealth and Power and wealth are conjoined. Guardians
should vet those seeking power to avoid those who just intend on shooting and
looting the political systems. Those that come in power by looting and shooting
will always loot and shoot; this is no basis for democratic legitimacy and will
never be. It is only similar to vote rigging.
Structure
three: democracy needs an economy
Okay,
So in Uganda I have noticed that they is a lot of mere
talking about turning the country into middle class. Well, if by middle class
we mean the abuse of power of the country to turn public into private wealth,
as it has happened in so many corners of our countries; so much of this
generation builds its wealth on theft are just as illegitimate as the Lords who
allow them. A chairman collects a fee for a letter of reference, large percentage
on phony land deals etc, and RDC is even worse! ANYWAYS!
A
proper function market, supported by a long plan back boned well function state
provides an easier space to do business.
Kenyans are building a market for their citizenship. They wakeup and
work. They are not just talking about becoming middle classing! They working to
become middle class, they act middle class! They provide service like they are
middle class not some luck bush/village boy who got appointment to a big
government job and all the powers of tribalism that maybe be. Stable state
supported markets are created when prosperity and power meet. This makes it
possible for citizens to regard the outcomes of elections as important, but not
as matter of life and death. When prosperity and power meet it lowers the
temperature of politics from the burning to the bearable.
All
democracies need accepted laws,
Laws shape the rules of every society for the systems
of democracy to be effective. The law must be enacted and implemented in
accordance with accepted procedures. This makes up the political, social and
economic face of a nation. The country the lacks the rule of law is on a verge
of chaos, tyranny- the unhappy fate of Uganda’s history. Democracy then is
about much more than voting and voting rigging. “it is a complex web of rights,
obligations, powers, and constraints” Those that win election should never just
do as the wish. They should do what’s best for all of the people of the country
for those who voted for and against them. Anything short of that is not
democracy and it might just be elected dictatorship!
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