The democratic governments of the world are suffering from in the inability to act in a speedy manner. The concern is to ensure that everyone has their rights protected and is given the greatest opportunity to respond to change. This is noble. This is how it should be.
However, it can’t take fifteen years or twenty years . . or beyond the lifetime of the person waiting for justice. The problem is the expediency not the processes.
If we could keep the processes, the guarantees that each of us have living in the United States, but bring things to a conclusion more rapidly, it would bring back the confidence which a lot of people innately have for our governmental system.
This is especially true for those who don’t have the understanding or exposure to experiences which allow them to see the bigger picture. And, I think it is hard to see.
It is one of the factors that forment discord and unhappiness; and the unwitting victims are the police and the others who are responsible for public safety. This is what makes people so unhappy with the politicians, resulting in the election of dilettantes, simpletons, and criminals, who promise to fix things immediately.
In the 1970’s we were in the midst of political and social turmoil at San Francisco State College. One day a truck with loudspeakers blared political messages on the perimeter of the college. S.I. Hayakawa approached the truck and ripped the wires out of the loudspeakers. His popularity soared, paving the way for him to become a US Senator after leaving SF State. People were looking for an easy solution.
If only ripping out the wires of the past were as easy as ripping out the wires of a loudspeaker!
We must use the tools that we have developed in the great technological boom of the last 75 years and harness those to speed up the processes that run our society.
Justice and the dream of a great democratic society for ALL appear to be on the wing. Let’s not let that happen.