By: Safa A.
Libya, Egypt and Syria are all countries in common when it comes down to the lack of political participation/democracy. 51 out of 195 countries are fortunate enough to vote for their country’s leaders and express their opinion according to Wikipedia. All together that’s less than 4% of all the countries on the face of the earth. The question is, is political participation/democracy important? The answer is defiantly yes and we have to do something about it because the governor will rule a long time, the people have the right to be free and be included and most important the governor should do what the people want and need.
To start off, all humans have the right to be free. Therefore we should decide who is best deciding what happens and how things are run by freedom of speech and voting. Not a small group of people. While were outside feeling isolated because we can’t state our opinion because we be severely hurt. As George Washington once said, ‘If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.’ Maybe possibly killed. Is that a way to treat a human being? Is that how a ruler should “rule” their people?
Second, if the people get to vote then every five years they will be able to elect a new Governor or maybe re-elect the previous one. Unfortunately if the people don’t have the right to vote then the Governor can stay in power for a long period of time. Which leads to corruption because he/she knows they don’t usually have to worry about being kicked out of the “throne” because the people don’t have a say in what happens. So they start to become selfish and take the countries money and not focus on important things such as poverty. For example take Egypt’s past ruler Mubarak he was the president of Egypt for 30 years. After awhile he started to slack off as a president and wouldn’t divide money for his people fairly. Even worse after ruling for 30 years he planned that when he’s done and retired his son Gamal will rule after him. He just wont give up the throne.
Most important of all, it’s the people who matter the most. So the person in power should listen to the people voice and opinion! What kind of president doesn’t care about what their people think? What kind of person would vote for or follow a person like that? No one and that’s why those greedy people are powering because no one had the right to go against them! They have no other option but to start a protest and its hard. The problem is that, that can cause major damage not only to their country and environment but also to them. For instance 10s of thousands of people are dying in Libya right now because of protesting, but in the end all of it is going to pay off.
As stated many times throughout my speech and I will state it again political participation/democracy important is a severely negative thing. We should do what we can to stop it even by the littlest things. So therefore political participation/democracy is a 100% guaranteed important. So take action!
Libya, Egypt and Syria are all countries in common when it comes down to the lack of political participation/democracy. 51 out of 195 countries are fortunate enough to vote for their country’s leaders and express their opinion according to Wikipedia. All together that’s less than 4% of all the countries on the face of the earth. The question is, is political participation/democracy important? The answer is defiantly yes and we have to do something about it because the governor will rule a long time, the people have the right to be free and be included and most important the governor should do what the people want and need.
To start off, all humans have the right to be free. Therefore we should decide who is best deciding what happens and how things are run by freedom of speech and voting. Not a small group of people. While were outside feeling isolated because we can’t state our opinion because we be severely hurt. As George Washington once said, ‘If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.’ Maybe possibly killed. Is that a way to treat a human being? Is that how a ruler should “rule” their people?
Second, if the people get to vote then every five years they will be able to elect a new Governor or maybe re-elect the previous one. Unfortunately if the people don’t have the right to vote then the Governor can stay in power for a long period of time. Which leads to corruption because he/she knows they don’t usually have to worry about being kicked out of the “throne” because the people don’t have a say in what happens. So they start to become selfish and take the countries money and not focus on important things such as poverty. For example take Egypt’s past ruler Mubarak he was the president of Egypt for 30 years. After awhile he started to slack off as a president and wouldn’t divide money for his people fairly. Even worse after ruling for 30 years he planned that when he’s done and retired his son Gamal will rule after him. He just wont give up the throne.
Most important of all, it’s the people who matter the most. So the person in power should listen to the people voice and opinion! What kind of president doesn’t care about what their people think? What kind of person would vote for or follow a person like that? No one and that’s why those greedy people are powering because no one had the right to go against them! They have no other option but to start a protest and its hard. The problem is that, that can cause major damage not only to their country and environment but also to them. For instance 10s of thousands of people are dying in Libya right now because of protesting, but in the end all of it is going to pay off.
As stated many times throughout my speech and I will state it again political participation/democracy important is a severely negative thing. We should do what we can to stop it even by the littlest things. So therefore political participation/democracy is a 100% guaranteed important. So take action!