There will be no democracy in our future. People always demand a king. God wanted ancient Israel to have a representational republic with the leaders following Him through the words of His prophets but the people said give us a King. Nothing has changed. All the nations will demand their king and reap the consequences. The vast majority of the population of the world today is not ruled by a republic or a democracy and those people who think they are in a democracy are usually living under a great illusion. The whole world will soon choose a king the book of Revelation calls him the Beast.
Democracy – a flickering star?
In a survey of 24 countries by Pew Research Center, the nation that emerged as far and away first on Earth in the satisfaction of its people was China. No other nation even came close.
“Eighty-six percent of Chinese people surveyed said they were content with the country’s direction, up from 48 percent in 2002. … And 82 percent of Chinese were satisfied with their national economy, up from 52 percent,” said the Times.
Yet, China has a regime that punishes dissent, severely restricts freedom, persecutes Christians and all faiths that call for worship of a God higher than the state, brutally represses Tibetans and Uighurs, swamps their native lands with Han Chinese to bury their cultures and threatens Taiwan.
China is also a country where Maoist ideology has been replaced by a racial chauvinism and raw nationalism reminiscent of Italy and Germany in the 1930s. Yet, again, over 80 percent of all Chinese are content or even happy with the direction of the country. Two-thirds say the government is doing a good job in dealing with the issues of greatest concern to them.
And what nation is it whose people rank as third most satisfied?
Vladimir Putin’s Russia.
Moscow is today more nationalistic, less democratic and more confrontational toward the West than it has been since before the fall of communism. Power is being consolidated, former Soviet republics are hearing dictatorial growls from Moscow, and a chill reminiscent of the Cold War is in the air.
Contrast, if you will, the contentment of Chinese and Russians with the dissatisfaction of Americans, only 23 percent of whom told the Pew poll they approved of the nation’s direction. Only one in five Americans said they were satisfied with the U.S. economy.
Other polls have found 82 percent of Americans saying the country is headed in the wrong direction, only 28 percent approving of President Bush’s performance and only half that saying they approve of the Congress. In Britain, France and Germany, only three in 10 expressed satisfaction with the direction of the nation.
Liberal democracy is in a bear market. Is it a systemic crisis, as well?
In my view, “autocratic Capitalism” is an oxymoron. Capitalism is based upon the individual’s right to property and the fruits of his labor. In a Capitalist society, the gov’t upholds these rights and punishes those who infringe upon these rights. That is not the case in Russia or China where the gov’t mingles in the economy and frequently confiscates others’ property, eg. the nationalization of certain industries (see the case against Khodorkovsky who formerly owned Yukos, for instance). These countries are autocratic, yes, but not Capitalist. They merely represent the Third Way, or Corporatism – which is essentially what Fascism stood for and the direction in which the Western world is also going.
Nothing lasts but the God’s Word. Any type of government based merely on the will of the majority, or man’s limited reasoning in general, or the ideas of a fallible man with absolute power, with no regard for the wisdom concealed in ancient tradition, that arrogantly tries to impose a new natural order, that has no regard whatsoever for God’s Laws – all of them are bound to fail.
What Liberal Democratic countries need to accept is that there are certain standards that mustn’t be changed because they are God-given – they are absolute and sacred, they cannot be subjected to the will of the immoral majority of sinful people. In fact, it’s arrogant to pretend you have a right to do so.