Democracy - IS IT FAILING ?????

Where can I express my bloody opinion these days . In this world of over 4 billion people , everybody wants to have a say . People turn to the internet to say what they have to say and yet their 'valuable' opinions are scarce read if not implemented to a great extent . Having a blog - yeah thats what they turn to and yet most often , the only people reading their blogs are they themselves .

But what does the crap i have written have anything to do with democracy . Well let me type some more shit , which will infact bore you immencely and tell yo why !!!

Democracy is elected government - Atleast that is the popular notion . But one often forgets that democracy also means the right to freely express yourself - stand in the elections and fight for a public cause such as that of poverty , unemployment , child labour blah blah blah . So if people wish to this , then they will have to express their opinion and in todays corrupted world where it is cash which talks for itself , an honest and earnest worker has his tongue cut of . Thus , we arrive finally to my point - in a long and winding road as the beatles put it .

The elections today is vastly based on caste politics . The main objective of the political party or a political leader is to get votes and not for the overall development of the nation or state. In the process of getting their votes political parties scarce realize that they are infact splitting the nation on the basis of caste . As a matter of fact , there is not one institute or organization in the India that i personally know of which rejects admission on the basis of caste. So if this the state of affairs , then i must question "Why have reservations on the basis of caste ?". If you so badly want to improve the condition of the people and work for a humanitarian cause , then have reservations basing on economic criterion. The only reason this has failed to happen is obviously because of the political parties and their obsession towards caste politics .

Democracy according to its principles (those laid out by Plato) clearly stated that it was for the peoples benefit. When these political parties play games like vote-bank politics , there is no development and the condition of the masses rarely improves . So now in this digitalised world, the only democracy left has to be the internet and yours and my blogs . But the problem arrises when such a democracy goes unnoticed to the world . After all , when money can do all the talking ...... why have such a failure by the name of democracy !!!!!!!!!