The Numbers Game...

Friday, September 09, 2005

Why do everytime DEMOCRACY is being talked about – it is always told that the majority wins? My question: what if the majority is wrong, do they still win?

If you’ll look at the dictionary what democracy means you will see the word free first. And if you’ll dig deeper at it, it’s the Greek word DEMOKRATIA that it came from. DEMOS that means “people” and KRATIA that means “rule”. Thus, RULE OF PEOPLE… But it seems like what happened in the congress two days ago is the RULE OF MAJORITY.

Majority does not always win. You see, WE ARE humans, not excluding the alleged legislators of the country. As humans ONLY, we commit mistakes sometimes. “HONORABLE” CONGRESSMEN, you are not GODS, you are also humans like us. So if we say that DEMOCRACY IS WHAT THE TRUTH IS AND NOT ALWAYS ABOUT MAJORITY WINS, it might be a better explanation – coz democracy isn't all about freedom ONLY but also of truth. Bet you aren’t aware of the Bible verse that says THE TRUTH SHALL SET US FREE.


If the people don’t believe that the recent IMPEACHMENT proceedings is relieved of faultiness and thus represents VOX POPULI, you can’t blame them to go to the roads, their last resort. What really happened at the congress is a mere NUMBERS GAME. I DARE MOCK all congressmen who voted to trash the impeachment complaint. Just only because there’s nothing really different about us – we’re both humans and we’re both Filipinos. The only panel who had decided last September 6 is only the majority bloc. We were not heard. Apparently, it is only the 158 congressmen who decided about it. Have they dared to ask their respective constituents, who put them in where they are, about their vote? We know that it is not the RP who invented CORRUPTION to cry out loud, but what we howl is that we’ve had enough.

Now, does democracy rely in numbers?

As long as I’m blogging, you’ll never read that majority wins. It is against my NATURE. Since high school, I loathe that “majority wins” thing, coz I know that it is not always the right thing. Sometimes, minority is VOX DEI. Democracy was made, I believe, to promote freedom. With freedom, comes along truth. Even if it hurts and doesn’t sound like it’ll free you for the fact that it (truth) will sometimes put you to JAIL, it still frees. The truth shall set us free. It’s a maxim, an age-old general rule and principle; never a CLICHÉ. For it will never be overused, as long as freedom is suppressed it will remain true that truth really sets free.

Well, I think, democracy does rely in numbers… at least in its FILIPINO VERSION.