Eric_A

I believe that democracy is a system that can be stretched in ways that that make a good system bad. Democracy is used by everyone, and used in many ways, from government to a normal citizen. To be a person involved in democracy you do not need to do much more than be a law-abiding, taxpaying citizen. People who are trying to run for a position in such things as class president to president of the United States can use democracy to their advantage. They can do this by twisting what they are saying in ways that make them sound like a good democratic person. Although democracy can be a bad, corrupt, system it can also have good results. Some people strive to be a good democratic person. To be truly democratic you should do things such as vote, follow laws, pay taxes, keep up on what is going on in your community and country, help the town you live in, and the people that live in that town. Also you can go even further and give up your time to people and charities, you can run for a government office or be on the town council. Many people don’t do these things and should, but take credit for doing those things. There many bad things that can cause the democratic system to become corrupt when you are trying to be democratic. Some examples of this are how people use democracy in such a way that they sound democratic, but are not. Other examples are the way that people can get away with not following laws and staying out of trouble for what they did, but others might not break the law or do something not that bad and get in trouble for it.  Democracy can cause many troubles for people and can be used to advantages to help people. The media will tell stories of people, such as people running for a government position, and portray them as a better person than they are. The things said by people running for a government position will lie about what they will do when they are elected. Often the things that sound the best, or to good to be true, are lies. If democracy wasn’t so loosely formed than this wouldn’t happen. Also if the media looked closer and paid more attention to every detail in what a person is really like than it could help strengthen democracy. As well as, people should stop lying. Democracy is meant to be used by people, and run by the people, in a good way. Although that is not always the way it is used today.