{"id":2305,"date":"2014-09-07T13:55:42","date_gmt":"2014-09-07T09:55:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nayarweb.com\/blog\/?p=2305"},"modified":"2014-09-07T13:55:42","modified_gmt":"2014-09-07T09:55:42","slug":"democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nayarweb.com\/blog\/2014\/democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Democracy<\/em> is marketed as the ability of the people to have <em>power<\/em> in their hands. But what is it actually?<\/p>\n<p>Every 5 years, for 5 minutes, you have the <em>right<\/em> or <em>power<\/em> to put 3 crosses on a sheet of paper next to your favorite candidates.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>5 Years contain approximately 2,592,000 minutes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The rest of the 2591995 minutes, it is a <em>dictatorship<\/em>. Our hands get tied up. Our mouths gets taped. Sticks are put in our wheels. Literally.<\/p>\n<p>Employees and students wait for the Prime Minister&#8217;s and the President&#8217;s car to go before to be able to reach their office and schools.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/scontent-b-kul.xx.fbcdn.net\/hphotos-xfp1\/v\/t1.0-9\/10492306_782104911820931_2685379793336492314_n.jpg?oh=5aa06d19519b4ca00bdd223ce7d9d51b&#038;oe=54A72072\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Did the people want the Mauritian beaches to be sold to hotels and restaurants?<\/li>\n<li>Did the people want speed cameras? Or roads which are safe, fast and efficient?<\/li>\n<li>Did the people want Rs 50 million crappy gov.mu website?<\/li>\n<li>Did the people want frauds? If you&#8217;re a &#8216;petit copain&#8217;, then yes<\/li>\n<li>Did the people want the Government to store their fingerprints and bio-metric photos?<\/li>\n<li>Did the people want a Rs 2 billion prison facilities?<\/li>\n<li>Did the people want to increase the bus fares when it was already high? <a title=\"Remember the Anil Bachoo Stupidity Fund?\" href=\"https:\/\/nayarweb.com\/blog\/2014\/remember-the-anil-bachoo-stupidity-fund\/\">1<\/a>,<a title=\"Anil Bachoo. What is it that you do?\" href=\"https:\/\/nayarweb.com\/blog\/2013\/anil-bachoo-what-is-it-that-you-do\/\">2<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>But now, something bigger is going to happen. We won&#8217;t even have that 5 mins. The current PM wants a permanent seat on power by planning to become President. The opposition joined the government. What do we have now?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.net\/hphotos-ak-xpf1\/v\/t1.0-9\/s526x395\/10609508_10152255360131316_1970079613159749160_n.jpg?oh=272f02240084b5d507c8592d1e94423c&amp;oe=5492AC44&amp;__gda__=1420096594_4b6c73e3e6c2aa083ade47f437d17ff9\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Can we choose who we want to be our dictator? Or can we choose our supreme dictator?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democracy is marketed as the ability of the people to have power in their hands. But what is it actually? Every 5 years, for 5 minutes, you have the right or power to put 3 crosses on a sheet of paper next to your favorite candidates. 5 Years contain approximately 2,592,000 minutes. The rest of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nayarweb.com\/blog\/2014\/democracy\/\" class=\"continue-reading\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Democracy<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[64,191],"class_list":["post-2305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-mauritius","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nayarweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nayarweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nayarweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nayarweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nayarweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2305"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/nayarweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2330,"href":"https:\/\/nayarweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2305\/revisions\/2330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nayarweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nayarweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nayarweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}