Democracy and Freedom: The Uselessness of the Current Democracies

Globalization has connected the minds of everyone across the planet. The way one thinks and lives is influenced by the way another thinks and lives from a different culture, a different continent. Just like in other aspects, the more powerful are the more influential, thus, and unfortunately, a standard or correct way of thinking and living has inevitably been formed. Democracy, a thought for which wars were raged and people killed, is in fact a term and only a term where its way of use or way it is defined, is a result of an influenced globalized world.
Ask me what democracy is and I will give only two general definitions. Democracy is either the currently non-existent situation where you, as a citizen, are in control of your relation with the state – basically a government that listens only to its people; OR the currently existent fake feeling of being represented, of thinking you have an effective say in state affairs – basically a government that runs a state by leading its people to believe their voices are heard. Unfortunately, the majority believe the current democracy is the nonexistent one, but even worse, due to the current globalized and influenced mindset, the majority believes we should have at least one of the two democracies. Current thought will label a state as a proper modern one if it is democratic, regardless of how democratic it really is.
Contrary to popular belief, democracy is not just the capability of the people to vote and elect representatives or leaders. That is just half of the true meaning of democracy. Your democratic right does not end after you cast your vote, it begins right there. True democracies exist when the people that elected their representatives can properly and effectively criticize them. There should be a proper feedback system where the government knows that it is doing what the people wants it to do and where the people know what the government is doing and can put it back on track after it does a mistake – where a mistake is when the government does something against its people’s wishes. In the US, many people give up their right to vote because they find it useless and that the politicians do not listen to them anyway. So is this truly democracy?
The bugs in the democratic system in the US and other developed countries are not as bad is in other developing and poorer countries. In many of such countries in South America, Africa and Asia, democracy was forced upon the people by powerful nations thinking that they are doing a good deed. Are they? Democracy is not that easy to achieve. It cannot be applied overnight, it needs many requirements, the society and people must be well prepared for it.
One of the main requirements for democracy to work is a politically mature society. The people, at least a majority if not all, must be well educated to be able to select good leaders. For many poor nations, the majority of the people lives in poor rural areas and has no understanding of democracy and elections. They need food, homes and other very basic necessities for life. Any rich or charismatic person can promise to provide that, thus, ends up being democratically elected (with the approval of the greater world powers) just for him to abuse the power the people entrusted him with.
A society can be not well prepared for democracy for other reasons, such as culture. Many societies are still traditional and are geared towards following a leader unquestionably. Even though to some parts of the world this mentality is horrid, it is acceptable in other parts. The cultural difference should be taken into account. Many thoughts and systems such as democracy, capitalism, socialism, communism et cetera have been generated in a certain place to serve the people of that place in accordance to their mentality and culture, therefore when it is exported to another place, it has to be customized to suit the mentality and culture of the people at its new destination or there should be a wait till the people change their mentality and culture.
Globalization has sped up the process a bit and many people have not adapted yet thus leading to multiple democracy-caused disasters. Democracy should not be forced upon people if they are not ready for it. There should be a transit state during which any progressive and positive form of rule is OK. True democracy, being an ideal form of rule, is inevitably going to be brought upon by the society when it is ready for it.