Comments on: How Pakistan Disproves Traditional Realism http://registan.net/index.php/2008/02/21/how-pakistan-disproves-traditional-realism/ All Central Asia, All The Time Fri, 25 May 2012 20:24:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Eric http://registan.net/index.php/2008/02/21/how-pakistan-disproves-traditional-realism/comment-page-1/#comment-376392 Eric Fri, 22 Feb 2008 14:06:26 +0000 http://www.registan.net/index.php/2008/02/21/how-pakistan-disproves-traditional-realism/#comment-376392 Can an election be ensured to be truly democratic? It seems that whenever someone's vote doesn't get the majority, they instantly lose faith in the system, begin accusing the system of being faulty (or the opponents of being cheats) and, often, start finding ways to get around it. When the floodgates are opened to people being able to voice their opinion on decisions after being shut for so long, they have a hard time being denied even by popular vote, which is something they can't even see versus the way it was before where something that was always noticeably present forcing them to have no say. It's hard enough for those who are able to speak out all the time and not getting their way. Could a truly democratically-elected government reasonably happen there? What would be the time-frame on it if so? Can an election be ensured to be truly democratic? It seems that whenever someone’s vote doesn’t get the majority, they instantly lose faith in the system, begin accusing the system of being faulty (or the opponents of being cheats) and, often, start finding ways to get around it.

When the floodgates are opened to people being able to voice their opinion on decisions after being shut for so long, they have a hard time being denied even by popular vote, which is something they can’t even see versus the way it was before where something that was always noticeably present forcing them to have no say. It’s hard enough for those who are able to speak out all the time and not getting their way.

Could a truly democratically-elected government reasonably happen there? What would be the time-frame on it if so?

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