Celebrate Our Democracy in The World

In response to the People Power Revolution in the Philippines, there are countries in the world like Romania, Panama, Poland and the Soviet Union change to a democratic society in later years. However, there are more countries to go on to make democracy worth better for the world.

“Democracy will remain a fragile butterfly”, as Sheen said on an episode on “Jimmy Neutron”. Hope this century, the true meaning of democracy should make it better. In other words, there should have not just freedom of press and freedon of expression, there should have transparency to each other and respect to ourselves. Then, there should have tolerance, an unlimited one, to make sure when the individual is arrested, the person should be innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Also, governments should have a common philosophy to protect people and provide them a peace of mind for a democratic fundamentals, so people not have the voice be heard but to have a democratic, tolerated consensus, not controlled by an individual or oligarchic people. Political parties should provide a common ground for democracy, as stated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Those challenges, as stated, seems overwhelming, especially for the oppressors. However, democacy in this world should be celebrated even that philosophy cannot agreed to as a whole.

This International Day of Democracy should be dedicated to leaders who make change in the true meaning of democracy, even though they died: Sir Winston Churchill, Ehud Barak, Nelson Mandela, Corazon Aquino, Lech Walesa, Boris Yeltsin, Helmut Kohl, and certain others. For Aung San Suu Kyi and other opposition leaders in certain oppressed countries, we will support you till the end.