Democracy's Spaghetti Sauce

Why is democracy valued in the United States and other countries? Viewpoints from many people are asserted to find what is productive for most people. Allowing people to live and find productive methods of living assists in eliminating insignificant information and find effective ways of getting everyone what they need.

Despite the assumptions there is a lack of methods to identify what is important to everyone, there are basic methods to create a common collective. People need shelter, food and sense of well-being. Shelter is necessary to everyone whether living in a mansion, small home or on the street. The ability to sleep through night or day without dying is important. Everyone understands this instinctively without explanation.

Food is important. It is known people need food and water to live. A person may only live a week without food or a day without water. When people starve, they go through a metaphoric change into animalistic behavior and seek survival on a primal level. This creates two issues: threats to shelter and potential death which threatens a sense of well-being.

Well-being is a mental state established through being a functional part of society. It isn't the raw functionality of shelter or food, yet it is the apparatus in which people gain both. Working within a larger group equals protection and opportunities, so even as children we begin joining groups and gaining favoritism. An effective way to gain favoritism is through offerings to the group and giving goodwill to others. In the activity of caring about another person, we also devise plans to save ourselves in similar circumstances.

Establishing what is needed to survive creates a basic premise for which everything else is built. People evaluate these issues from different perspectives and advance levels contribute to cultures and subcultures appearing unusual when compared to each other. Democracy is the system to which everyone is able to debate how objectives will be achieved.

Bilateral communication is important, especially when looking at many levels of management. How would the President know a restaurant needs spaghetti sauce, because inventory is low? They don't. The President is not an omnipresent entity. However, the manager talks to the owner and the owner sends spaghetti sauce. Everything is okay unless the government places tariffs on the supplier or prices are going up because of demand. Then owners go to Representatives or district supplier who talks to Congress. Eventually the President addresses the needs of all restaurants needing spaghetti sauce.

This is a functional part of bilateral communication proving the benefits of democracy. Though the United States idealizes capitalism, it is actually a Federalist system of government. Federalist governments are similar to Monarchies when fulfilling the additional layer of government, which is loosely defined as a group of leaders who announce plans, how it will be achieved and citizen responsibility to make it happen.

Some federalist countries are dictatorships wherein they completely rely on the character of the leader to make excellent decisions. Nobody enjoys tyranny. Perhaps the tyranny stems from desiring a greater goal than what is achievable or the leader is a victim past decisions. Yet, being forced into labor and heavy taxation is disappointing to everyone.

Everyone has a vision of a perfect or satisfactory life, with methods and thoughts of obtaining this life. The collaboration of all these thoughts should increase the ability to avoid unrealistic or unproductive decisions, tyranny.

People wonder if democracy is all that great. Some push against it, declaring the masses as incompetent. Others want more democracy. I want more democracy, because in the issues of spaghetti sauce, perhaps the person noticing they needed more in inventory does not need a sophisticated degree.

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