A Mature Democracy

بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ

Ideally, in a mature democracy, we are not for or against parties or ideologies.  Rather, we are for or against specific policies and their instruments of implementation.  We are not labels, but people with needs, ideas and aspirations.  Crafting legislation and formulating policy direction is not a zero-sum equation, but a compromise for a win-win. 

Practically, there is no such thing as a mature democracy.  The larger the demographic, the lower the ability to think critically.  This is because people are gregarious by nature, and it is our biological imperative to groupthink, and conform. 

It either takes extraordinary foolishness, or extreme courage or colossal arrogance, or a combination of these factors, to break that biological programming, and be different.  History tends to celebrate these individuals, while contemporary societies vilify them.  This is logical.  People want their fantasies of empowerment, but few want to move out of that comfort zone.