Democratic movements, Social evolution

By Shahab Sabahi

Energy and Environment - Policy analysis research group
Joshua Kurlantzick in his article “Thailand: A democratic failure and its lesson for the Middle East” March 2011, Council on Foreign Relations gave his impressions about the threats that the infant Middle East democracy movements might face. To help his arguments, he lucidly explained the path of Thailand’s democracy and its afterward incidents. However the cultures and the causes of uprising in two regions are wholly different. Indeed he fails to profoundly look the key issues which dominate the emotional atmosphere of emerging democracies.
Here I add some lines. The emerging democracies, no matter where they occur, are at odd with the genuine process of the societal evolution process. It may describe as one of the fundamental issue. These movements lack a statement of “declaration of democracy”
As much as 10 years before drafting the US constitutions, the leaders of the US revolution, Jefferson, John Adams and Franklin had drafted “”the declaration of independence” based on the ideas of John Locke. Indeed it was a sober and pragmatic declaration in which they outlined a clear definition of “life, liberty, and happiness” in the cost of independence. The declaration was even at odd with the notion of the dominated orthodox Christians of those days. The declaration, indeed, implicitly helped the colonies to find out what they could “expect from the democracy” rather than any leaders.
Given this historical experience as a positive move,
The emerging democracies require a set of new philosophy before ratifying their constitutions (Not available),
Democratic process toward its fulfilment, is a dynamic process. it would take long time to emotion gives a way to logic in the Macro decision-making level,
Poors should understand why they are poor, and believe that there won’t be a supernatural hero (or government) out there for help.

It tells us, for every social change, there is a bumpy road ahead. Before complete democracy settlement, the US experienced civil war, while France’s revolution caused emerging of an autocrat. These incidents helped them to learn how it would be possible and necessary to live side by side where opposite thoughts were in place. They learnt how far dialogues could fix their problem instead of wars. Perhaps same faith would lay ahead for all the emerging democracies.
The existing democratic societies passed through hatreds, wars, alliances and competitions. Their changes claimed many lives and damages to eventually pacified when the pragmatic thoughts and passionate, competitions, alliances replaced dogma.