Democracy vs Dictatorship

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Chairperson, adjudicators, esteemed opposition, ladies and gentlemen, fellow students, My name is Aoibhinn O’Sullivan and I am here today to propose the motion “this house would prefer a benevolent dictator towards a modern democracy” * If we look out our nation today where are we? an economic slump, no jobs, no security no money. You will also notice that our nation is a democracy. Now lets take a look at China. Lots of jobs. Lots of security. Lots of money. China is run under a dictatorship, regarded as a poor one at that. If china is a poor dictatorship imagine what a benevolent dictatorship could do. If we look at our society today can we honestly say this is what we wanted when we cast our electoral votes? Did we really want all these cutbacks, all these taxes? But who do we have to blame? Because according to our “fair” democracy it is us who are at fault. We voted for these people.. it’s our fault they spent our money Lets look at Ireland and the state it is in now, Our recession is not the bankers fault, not the developers fault, not the governments fault, and certainly not the peoples fault. But who’s fault is it then? In a benevolent dictatorship the dictator or dictators are at fault. The problem can be sourced to its root and changes for the better can be made. In a democracy however, a problem has no root and therefore has no solution, how can a democracy ever make changes for the better when we cannot source the problems, caused to begin with? * As Evan has just mentioned a key word in this motion is benevolent. Benevolent dictatorship means putting the nations best interests at heart over your own personal gain. The word Democracy originated from the ancient greek word demokratia literally meaning “people power” but was this power really obtained by ALL the people? Democracy was made by the elite for the elite. Fast track hundreds of years

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