"Democracy is messy"

Chris Watson, 1.27 am, 22.07.2024, Washington, DC, USA, sky news "But also great fun!"

Every four or five years in democracies election campaigns are underway. Massive funds are spent on the election trails from corporate bodies as well as rich or common people. Some expect favors to enter their pockets once the election is successfully won spinning the wheel of corruption and fortune for a handful of lucky ones. Short-term manifestos hit the ears of potential voters.

In some democratic settings like the US election campaigns get messy. They get personal and every sin a candidate in his life had ever done sees the light of a broader public emotionally dragging each human down.

In other less "Pull him down and get him off his pants" democracies candidates attack each other on their past performance. They try hard to throw mud against the opponent calling their manifestos unrealistic. Politicians are used to this form of campaign and see nothing wrong with it. Some like Boris Johnson or Donald Trump love it like kids playing at the playground to throwing mud at the child next to them. Great stuff to them. Less resilient candidates take ugly words seriously not at all as a fun game.

Elected Kings/Queens never play with mud in the sandbox of history. They don't run expensive campaigns to be elected every four years but preserve a high level of dignity all the way to the throne. It is not in their DNA to get personal or refer to the mistakes made by their predecessor or the ideas of the people competing with them for the throne. Every financial supporter knows his funds in the end are for the good of the nation and will not come back to them. Elected Kings/Queens only submit visions for generations to come not manifestos. They through their personality give more stability to the nation than political parties that change course year after year as seen fit for re-election. This process no Elected King/Queen has to go through.

Let's sit back get out the popcorn and witness another form of messy Democracy during the next six months of the US election rallies.