Collectivist View Of Government Essay

Our society as an entire hemisphere has been based on the ancient idea of democracy, and for democracy to work the citizens need to be involved. The source shows the opinion of someone that believes that citizens should not be involved in the government. In other words the source tells us that this person would like citizens to be unable to make crucial decisions and leave those jobs to the one’s that know what they are doing. The ideological perspective in this source is fascist because the opinion states that the government should have complete control while the citizens have little to none which is similar to fascism in the way that the citizens are not allowed to disagree with the government and the government would have complete authority over the people. The source therefore has a primarily collectivist perspective. The principles of liberalism that are implied are 3, 4, and 5. Principle #3 and 4 is implied because the source is sharing a view which is the opposite of what principle #3 and 4 expresses. Principle #5 is implied because it states that the government has a responsibility to the people in their most vulnerable state, while the source does not

mention such vulnerability it does wish the government to have blanket control implying the government having responsibility. I disagree with the ideological perspective in the source, while the perspective has good points a truly democratic society must have the opinions and voices of the citizens. By removing the people from a government of the people it is no longer a democracy it has turned into a form of dictatorship. The citizens do not have to be uninformed, they have the opportunity to become informed on the issues at hand.

The way we have created our society and government is based on the opinions and voices of the people.

Without the people being involved nothing will be done for the sake of the farmers or families that would have no way to input their ideas. Our society is ever changing based on what the citizens think is right for to nation or community as a whole. Our government is based on the success that the ancient greeks had with how their democratic society worked. We found their new fangled idea of democracy was a brilliant idea and have been using it as a basis of our western society for centuries. The people had a say in what was going on in their community and for some reason we liked that idea, so by taking the people out of the government can we really call our society one that stands on the pillars of

democracy?

When the people’s voices are silenced and the government refuses to listen our happy consensuses and democratic treaties morph into ideas based on dictatorships. Dictatorship is not the concept that the early settlers and founding fathers fell in love with when they came to the Americas. There is a reason Canada and the United States were Allied countries, they didn’t believe in the dictatorships that ran the Axis countries. We like the idea of being countries that are ran by the people and for the people, it’s what makes us successful.

The source mentions the disinterest in citizens making uninformed decisions when in reality they don’t have to be uninformed. There are plenty of ways in which the citizens can become more involved and interested in the issues in their community that warrant involvement. Whenever there is an election, local, provincial, or federal, our school holds our own little election. Everything is done down to counting the ballots and seeing what candidate would win based on the student body polls. This is done to create an interest in what is going on in the real world around the students. Creating interest in the issues could easily encourage the citizens to become more informed.

The main issue of the source is whether a country would be successful if the government should have complete control over important issues or have uninformed citizens make decisions. In my opinion I believe that the citizens should have a say in what goes on in their country and community because that is what democracy is based on, if the people are not allowed to be involved the country becomes a dictatorship, and the citizens can become more involved making them more informed.