Democracy, American Style (1)

Democracy, American Style
November 19, 2000

Voters of the United States appear to have lost a sense of distinction in duopoly between the Democrats and the Republicans and split their votes in half with 300 odd thin margin choosing between the tweedle-dumb and tweedle-dumber.
Two weeks after they cast vote for presidency, it seems clear that the court has to determine who the winner is and people are very much complacent about it.

However, when court becomes an ultimate determinant mechanism of democracy, there are serious infringements in the process of democratic elections, since first of all the courts are formed with various levels of judges, local, state or federal, who were appointed by the executive branches under the strict guidelines of the party loyalty.
People build and nurture the illusion of justice and equilibrium in the judicial system in daily life, when they rely on judges for any dispute with neighbors or institutions seeking the adjudication and receive the judicial decisions as the final authority to determine the right and wrong.

Americans are notorious in litigating almost everything in order to satisfy and accomplish their highly selfish life styles, believing that litigation is the most civilized and balanced form of adjudication.
They live in a society where materialism supersedes over humanity and winners take all, and the courts have a façade of all mighty before the Second Coming of their fictitious and manmade god.
Americans have a tendency to drag anything, everything, and anytime, dog, cat, dad, mom, wife, children, and sisters and brothers, neighbors, old or young, poor or rich, in front of the judges, and seek for the judgement in their favors.

In Sunshine State, Floridians are bickering over the voting chads, as dimple chads, pregnant chads, bulging chads or dangling chads are supposed to be recounted or discarded in the canvassing process.
People in the Third World where Americans used to go to teach a democracy roll their eyes over the intellectual level of American voters who confused over the butterfly voting cards and voted for wrong candidate.
It is extremely hilarious to look at the group of high-powered lawyers like an unruly pack of wild dogs, from each candidate who bitches over whether the machine or human being is best to read the chads or count the votes

When the court functions as a final and ultimate arbiter on where the will of people were, it is nothing more than a judicial coup detat, that only Americans love to entertain and propagate as a true democracy.
Of course one should not expect some enlightened choice between two almost identical candidates from American voters who hold higher illiteracy rate than Vietnamese, and the judicial adjudication could be seen, for apologetic revisionists, a lesser evil than a military coup detat or civilian uprising.
Whoever the winner is, shame on you, Americans.