I think that democracy creates stability in a society.
Firstly, democracy emphasises the rights of the people, which means that the people on the street have every single right to run the country in certain ways. Most often, this is done by voting for the government which has the closest ideal to theirs. This will reinforce the impact that they have on their country and how it is being run. Democracy is good because the majority of the people are less prone to making mistakes than just a single dictator.
Democracy has been called the tyranny of the majority, dictatorship in a nicer form and many other names, but I think that democracy is a system that ensures that stability is maintained. It is a very practical solution to forming a government. No doubt it may not be the most ideal system of things around and it may not sound as nice as communism or Marxism. However, in such a world such as the one we are living in, even the most idealistic system falls to corruption and becomes a total mess in the end. This is because a single person is in power and the rest of the people cannot enforce their will upon him. In democracy, this does not happen. Obviously, even in democracy, corruption is still rampant in certain countries that have been considered fully democratic, but what I am discussing is whether democracy creates more stability than chaos.
In a perfect society, there would be stability. In an opposing society, chaos will ensue no matter what the system is. The world we are living in today is in between both, and what we have to do is try to bring it closer to a perfect society in order to bring about stability. This is especially true to this topic as all ideals are always wonderful, but as history has shown, Communism and Marxism, even though wonderous as ideals, have been eradicated in the course of history, but democracy still lives on because it is a practical solution to solve the problem of instability.
Furthermore, apart from looking at social stability, we can also look at the aspect of political stability. Democracy ensures relative polictical stability because the government in power cannot be disputed as the votes have already spoken apart from saying that the votes were unfair and miscounted or the likes of the issue. This is important as without a clear government, more than one government will be vying for power and the state is controlled with no clear goal in mind, which will definitely lead to conflicting actions and nobody reaching the ideal of a state. Hence, in this way, democracy will bring us one big step closer to political stability.
In conclusion, democracy creates stability in a society.
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