For the progress or decline of a country, it is not important which form of a government it is subscribing to and working under. The important thing is whether it is being run by a functional government manned by competent people. If the government is incapable of taking decisions when decisions are required, and is not either empowered or prepared to implement these decisions, the right word to describe such a government is ‘dysfunctional’.
America at the end of the second World War enjoyed a huge share of the GDP of the globe. Roughly the rest of the world had 51.5% of the total. America alone had 48.5%. To day the GDP share of the U.S has gone down to 21% of the world. Meaning thereby that the U.S economy is continuously shrinking. This is what is meant by the term dysfunctional. Every place where the governments have been functional, there has been huge rise in the GDP. China once regarded by the West as a hopeless case and a lost cause has already left the European countries and Japan for behind and is moving forward rapidly to snatch the global leadership from the U.S. The reason?
Despite all the Western propaganda against the Chinese authoritarianism, China is being ruled by a functional government. As far as the U.S is concerned, read the worldwide headlines of today: America facing the catastrophic results of a shutdown! The democracy of America is at war with its own national interest!
Pakistan has a lesson or two to learn from this all. Democracy doesn’t have its own intrinsic virtues. It is the functionality of the government in place, that really matters.
02-10-2013
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