MILESTONES 2015-16

MOBOCRACY
India is the world’s largest democracy, the seventh largest country, and also has
the second largest population (which contributes to the fact that we are the largest
democracy) and probably the most corrupt politicians. According to the ninth
grade textbook prescribed by the Central Board of Secondary Education, the Indian
Constitution, a democracy has a few prominent features:
• Is based upon an electoral system in which every contestant has a fair chance of
winning or losing
• Each adult citizen has one vote to cast which holds exactly one value
• The government rules within limits set by constitutional laws and rights
• The final decision-making powers rest with those elected by the people
• Is for the people, by the people , and of the people
Take a moment and think about what actually happens in the country.
Done? Now, take another moment to think about this -
“‘Majoritism’ is the same as mobocracy.”
For those of us who aren’t aware of what a mobocracy is, go to dictionary.com and
find out, or use a plain old hardcover. Either way, you’ll find out that a mobocracy is
sort of like a government with a mob of people in power.
Typically, most of us would deny this by looking in a dictionary and then displaying
the meaning and then a never ending argument would ensue, but in a political
scenario, you’d need to relate one extremely weird word to another.
Majoritism, in this case, (rather easy to guess) refers to the ruling party in general. In
today’s society, for example, the Hindu population would be the majority.
Now pop the entire thing into a blender and modify it to fit into the workings of the
current, extremely corrupted system. Two equations are obtained.
Ruling party = majority
Decision making scapegoats = mobocrats
The last step in analysing the reason behind why politicians today are corrupt beyond
imagination and usually make decisions that benefit them before the state - remember
the word greed.
The world today runs on brain power, and unfortunately it seems to be those very
minds that are crippling our systems, forever chasing selfish desires.
I guess the saying ‘Every man for his own’ holds true.
Manasi N, Grade X - E
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