Which is right?
Across our world people have evolved with different cultures, values, beliefs, economic and political systems which continue to evolve with time. Most communist countries of today evolved from dictatorships. So did democracies.
Sir Winston Churchill said "democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried". This implies that democracy is the best form of government bar none and this belief is strongly held in the west. It is this strong belief that western governments, in the goodness of their hearts, use to try to democratize non-democratic countries. The same can be said of communist countries which, at least in the past, tried to spread communism across the world.
How different is a political belief from a religious belief? How does imposing ones political belief on others differ from imposing ones religious belief on others? How does this differ from imposing ones values on others? Sir Winston Churchill's statement implies there is no perfect government. All governments regardless of their political or economic stripe have supporters and dissenters. In all forms of government some people are more favored than others. It is arrogant for any one form of government to claim superiority over any other.
The true litmus test of a government should not be whether it is capitalist, communist, secular or theocratic but what good it does for its people. History around the world abounds with examples of good rulers who did wonderful things for their people. It also abounds with examples of bad rulers who did terrible things to their people. If we look around us there are great democracies doing great things for their citizens. There are also corrupt democratic governments where the elected "representatives" actually cheat and rob their constituents, create discord and conflict within their constituents all for their own selfish benefit.
What the world needs is not a single form of government. What the world needs is a higher World Government to knit the heterogeneous governments around the world into a seamless whole so important global matters such as the environment, climate change, hunger and poverty can be effectively tackled. This World Government cannot be constituted by representatives of sovereign states (like the United Nations is). This World Government should have representatives elected directly by the people of all sovereign states so the new World Government cannot be manipulated by individual nations. Having been elected directly by the world's people it will have authority over all existing governments.
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