Democracy creates stability in society

Democracy is a form of governance in which people are given the right to elect people to represent them in the government. Today, many nations have democracy as their chosen political system. Many would say democracy would surely create peace and stability in a society. However, in my opinion democracy does not necessarily mean peace and stability.

Democracy can create a stable and peaceful society. In democracy the people are given rights to choose who would represent them best in the government. The person whom they elect will act according to the needs and wants of the people to the best that he can. He will tend to the needs and the wants of the people. The decisions that the elected make will gain tremendous support from the majority of the people because they are the people that have voted for him in the first place. These people will be happy with the decisions made and this would lead to peace and stability for the country. Today, many nations that used democracy as a political system are successful and stable. Democratic countries like Singapore can be seen developing stably.

However, democracy does not necessarily mean a totally stable society. As said earlier, majority wins in democracy. In this case democracy makes the assumption that when the majority thinks something is right, that thing is right. This is unnecessarily true. Democracy is committing the fallacy of bandwagon. In the past, the Blacks in America were being harshly treated and the government made no effort to change this. This was because the majority of the society were Whites who thought that treating the blacks badly was okay. Of course this was unfair for the blacks but they were the minority and there was almost nothing they could do to stop it as the whites were the majority and hence they would have it their way. Although there was no real instability, there wasn’t total stability because of this.

Also, stability becomes a problem in democracy when certain parties are given more voting rights. These parties will surely get their representatives elected because of the advantage. For example, Northern Ireland had an internal conflict because the Protestants were given more voting rights than the Catholics. Hence, the laws that were formed would be in favour of the Protestants and this did not make the Catholics happy. This led to instability and violence in Northern Ireland. Hence, democracy does not necessarily create stability in a country.

However, I agree to a small extent that democracy creates stability in society. The results of democracy can be seen all over the world. Democratic countries can be seen being stable in terms of the economy, society and politically. However, in some cases, Democracy does not equate to stability. If the government act according to the majority’s needs then it might forget about the minority and this means that the country is not totally stable.