Matt_Br

 I believe that democracy is an imperfect form of government. In a democracy everyone has a fair and equal say in how things are done, this causes a long process of debates where nothing gets done until everybody puts in their ideals. Citizens rule through elected officials who have the same ideas of what is wrong and right. Sometimes people want to get elected so bad that they just say everything that the people want to hear, especially when re-elections come about. The people in power don't want to give up their power so bad that they tell good sounding lies to the people that voted for them the first time so they can get re-elected. Also in a Democratic government majority rules, causing a minority to form. If the majority sticks together they can make anything happen because they will always over rule the minority. A democracy was made to benefit the needs of the people, but once there is a formation of a majority the majority will always be the ones who are benefitted, because they can make laws that only benefit their needs. One good thing about democracy is that the rich don't always have to be the majority, which helps the lower and middle classes. Since there are more middle and lower class citizens the wealthy can’t just keep making unjust laws and taxes for the lower classes. The power in a democracy lies within the majority, this I believe.