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Since Keniveheqa's post here, I have been trying to understand the political map of the western world as it is in the past 50 years. And one thing came to my attention...
The democratic system in most developed societies has probably reached it's peak of proper performance and fairness towards it's citizens. In Israel, the parliament consists of 120 people, who usualy represent ten to fifteen different major parties (unlike the US or Germany). In order for a party to have a representative in the government, they need to get about 14,000 voices in the elections (out of six million citizens of the country). The last elections here, the voting ercentage was an all time low (about 60 percent of the total population), but almost every layer in the society still got it's man in the Knesset (the Israeli parliament). Thus an equlibrium is susstained between the majorities and minorities in the country. But only in theory.
The main problem starts right after the elections, when the people you have voted for, and who have promissed you a change which will help you survive the current political and financial situation, these same people are suddenly making the same changes an voting on the same laws as the major parties. So is there really a voice for the poverty stricken John Doe?
So people rise from their couches (if they have any) and start demonstrations in front of the Knesset trying to make a change. One very good example for this is the current major "shouting" group here. It consists of single parent mothers, who claim to be oppressed by the new financial plan of the government. These poor women have 1 - 4 children whom they are incapable to support financialy, because the allowance which was until now paid to them by the Social Security suddenly stops arriving to their bank accounts.
But how poor and unfortunate are they really? It turns out that about 75 percent of them are'nt even working, and not due to some dissability. They just don't work. Their leader, Vicky Knafo, a 40 year old women from south Israel, appears almost daily on the news, holding a Vogue ciggarette in one hand, a VERY expensive cellular phone in another, and both hands have nails, that every groomed Japanese girl would be amazingly proud of. She shouts abbout being oppressed, and that she deserves the money she used to get monthly. But where does this money really go? She lives on unemploynment for the past few years, not having worked a day since her first child was born. And where is her children's father (or fathers for that matter)? Don't they pay alimony? Sure they do. Tell me now, how unfortunate miss Knafo realy is...
Anyway, my point is, that usualy it's not the system that is broken, but the people living under the system. Borgeois majority which has developed complete apathy to the state of affairs, poor minorities who have developed a very borgeois life style - without working, and an amazingly rich five percent of the population who just sit in their huge houses, being very very queit, just so that no one will suddenly decide it's all their fault.
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