The False Democracy of Globalisation

Whew ... that was a serious looking topic.

I guess this must have struck many people but I have yet to read it like this yet :-

Democracy is a process by which the MAJORITY elects the winner and their leaders.

Globalisation (more the Wall Street Globalisation) is a process by which the FEW rich countries/individuals/corporates win by pure might of wealth over the majority.

So it is puzzling then why the supposed democratic government of the west supports globalisation religiously. And the wierdest thing is that the among the majority that suffers is the working people in the supposedly rich western countries. See issue in the Democratic primary in Ohio in 2008 and how Bill Clinton's NAFTA is boomeranging back on Hillary Clinton.

Increasingly we see governments giving the ARTIFICIAL and VIRTUAL corporate citizens ample way and leeway to make more money (or they call it increasing shareholder's value) by making the majority suffers.

Consider this, if your own citizen are expensive ('not competitive') find someone else who is. Likely that someone else is poorer and need it more and thus will be willing to do it cheaper of course. But the thing is the cycle doesn't end there ... they will go on and still search for cheaper places/people.

Somewhere down the line we've forgotten about increasing human value in life but about "increasing shareholders value". "Increasing shareholders value" means so little to those who is living from one paycheck to another to keep everyone in his/her family from starvation / lack of education / homelessness.

Democratic election counts for nothing much when if we choose those who will then 'elect' the rich minority over the 'barely surviving' majority.