Now Or Later? Freedom Or Fries With That?

When Fareed Zakaria said that the United States could use less democracy I am pretty sure he wasn’t referring to the growing fat epidemic. It would make sense to give people less choices and freedoms when it came to food, because obviously as the times will show; people will eat fatty and less expensive foods instead of healthier alternatives.

Zakaria was indeed referring to the social and political functions of our nation. He argues that we have to think about the long term and less about the short term answers to fixing the problems. Zakaria points out examples of where current examples of “less democracy” are present that how that is working when compared to examples of “more democracy”. Too much democracy causes problems that can be linked to problems that started long ago and are still present today. This problem until fixed will plague our nation over and over again indicating just one of the many things needing to be evaluated.

Zakaria answers that we need less democracy because it is getting in the way of effective reasoning. The government is enforcing more and more regulations and giving more and more breaks to those who cannot go along with these changes. Nothing is getting done if we make the whole system ring of dependency. Zakaria also states that after a recent poll most Americans felt that the agencies that were the most trustworthy and dependable were the ones with the least democratic checks and balances. He argues that because they are very specific and have had the least intervention and influence over the years that people will see this as the trustworthy standard.

Over the pages of his examinations Zakaria is essentially blaming the changes and is wishing that much of which is now ruined had been left alone.