The Democratics

Before you begin reading this article, I must warn you. I was trying to browse up and read these things on Wikipedia and several other unnamed sites and ended up getting more than a little bored and a bit confused.

This represents my view and understanding from the various perspectives I've gleaned at.

You know how several people can bake the same type of cake and it'll taste different? This is kind of what it's like.

Have a bite.

In many foreign countries, eg. The U.S.A. there are usually at least two sides to a national perspective.

The Democrats and The Republicans.

The two sides who more or less believe in the same thing but in different ways. If you don't understand what I mean by that look at it this way; two people can aim to arrive at the same destination but believe in very different ways of getting there.

There are, however, at LEAST two very big and blatantly obvious problems with this;

1. The terms democracy and republic (as well as their derivatives) are often misrepresented, and even more often, incorrectly used interchangeably.

2. There are several political standpoints which exist besides these two, and exist even in the minds of many of the countries that have adopted the two i mentioned earlier.

Now I'm no expert on differential political disciplines and ideologies. Also - The aim of this article isn't to address every ideology that exists or even to go headlong (or neckdeep or any body-measure you like) into a discussion of democracy or republicanism.

Though there ARE some things I'll be asking like; How come a lot of still erroneously refer to the "Republic of Nigeria" as a "Democracy"

Lets take the following sentence into consideration...

"Don't you know we live in a democracy?"

I’m sure you've heard that or a similar sentence sometime in your life if you're at least 12 years old or thereabout.

It was especially used today(yesterday) when i was talking with a few people in the cafeteria while we were watching the swearing in ceremony of our (Nigerians - I mean) new president. So these two particular ladies, during the course of our discussion said that I was against the progress of Nigeria because they believed I was "Anti-Buhari".

Honestly. Who could dare be against our new president😏.......like seriously.... . I, being a peaceful person, and having served in various leadership positions over the course of my lifetime have learnt quite a few things. It is NOT easy to be a leader. For real. This is actually no joke. There are logistical, systematic and people-made bottlenecks in virtually EVERYTHING. People will be against you in everything you do as much as they will also be with you. Negativity can do a lot to depress a leader. Most people would oppose you for these major reasons

• They don't see things the way you do

• They don't have confidence in you because you have a bad or inexistent track record.

• The plans you're making do not explicitly favor them.

• The plans you're making favor the people they don't like.

• They do not like the plans you're making or just don't want you to be the one making them.

• They don’t like what you represent or what you are associated with.

• They just do NOT like you.

It's ridiculous that people would spend so much time just bashing people and painting them black without ever attempting to look at the positives. There IS such a thing as CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM. Which most people these days seem to avoid having the mind frame of. Honestly. Minds clouded with hate can do nothing except steal, destroy and tarnish.

The truth is; sometimes if you do NOT look for positives you just will NOT see them.

I like Jonathan. That's true. But it doesn't mean i hate Buhari. Logic doesn’t ALWAYS fall into the black and white spectrum. And we must learn to look beyond even the grey. In case you DIDN'T know - we live in a multicolor world.

People used to be all over themselves calling OBJ a crook and devil, but today we hail him as not just a great statesman but a transformer (the startup and allowance of the mobile telephone networks). Im not going to write all that much more because now this article is getting very long.

Color your world with positivity. It's simply wrong and irrational to color everything you do NOT like as 'black'. (Black isn't even a color so there. :P )

We tend to put labels on people, calling ourselves democrats or statesmen and yet the situation seen is the same as putting a car label on a vegetable.

My fellow countrymen and countrywomen (Feminism!! I support), let us be more than bitter antagonists of the truth. Let us be MORE than 'Democrats'. Let us be who we truly are.....Let us be Nigerians.

Thanks for coming here :)

Love, Stars and Jam