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Last breath of liberal democracy

Riyatullah Farooqui by Riyatullah Farooqui
March 15, 2021

The exchange of cultural, educational, agricultural and industrial delegations is a time-honoured tradition as nations benefit from each other’s experiences.  Since the last hundred years, the West has emphasised on immersing the developing countries in their culture but has in fact created barriers in science and technology. The attitude on cultural exchange has been so aggressive that you cannot decide what to pick and leave out. It has imposed its will through coercion and has not even refrained from interfering in our educational curriculum.

Even in the field of education, they have not complained about why we are now producing good scientists. But rather why are we promoting Orientalism or something else? They have influenced our academics and writers and entrusted them with the task of making our young generation disown their culture and adopt Western culture.

We need to explain to them that science does not reside in the mind of one who wears a shalwar kameez, does not dance, and who constantly reverts to religion over and over again. This can be done by a liberal.

What is the purpose of people-to-people exchanges? To learn from each other’s experiences and move forward. This is certainly a beautiful concept but how does the United States react when China adopts the West’s experience in science instead of culture? The reaction is something like, “We will block China’s way with our allies.” Why? Are they planning to drop a bomb on Washington? Do they have ambitions like Hitler and Mussolini? Do they have an agenda to enslave other nations like the US and Western countries? They have only introduced Chinese food from their culture. They have not interfered with our curriculum or dress and have just spoken about industry, agriculture and trade. Then why is a war atmosphere being created in the South China Sea by uniting Australia, India, Japan and South Korea to block its path? What is their mistake that China is being punished? Is it because they are developing faster than developed countries and even a world leader like United States owes S1.7 trillion.

Francis Fukuyama in his essay ‘End of History’ released on the occasion fall of the Soviet Union claimed that no one could stop liberal democracy from becoming the only system. The journey that man has taken for thousands of years in search of a better system is over. Liberal democracy will now be the only and ultimate system in the world. The 21st Century was declared the century of the United States and the New World Order was imposed. But the scenario after the first two decades of the century is similar to the situation during the collapse of the Soviet Union when citizens queued up for a living and earning bread. Now Russia is back on its feed and is challenging the US.

Russia and China have put a brake on the occupation plan the United States was pursuing through aggressive diplomacy and military operations from the Middle East to Central Asia. Russia is trying to strengthen ties with Turkey and make it an important ally at the gates of the Middle East and has also foiled US advances through a long-term military presence in Syria. Russia has thwarted an insurgency plot by the US to surround it by puppet governments in Georgia, Kyrgyzstan and Ukraine.

Vladimir Putin also shattered Hillary Clinton’s dream of becoming US president, who tried to make Russia a ‘liberal’ nation through a “democratic coup” in 2011. The situation has escalated to the point that the United States, which used to lecture us on democracy, now sees liberal democracy in jeopardy in its own country.

Donald Trump infiltrated the US political system as a virus and neither Congress nor the White House had an anti-dote. The liberal democratic system, which has indebted nations and snatched their culture, education and identity, is struggling to survive even in its strongest fortress. The race movements in the West have risen up against liberal democracy. If this system had a real solution to our problems then why would it face rebellion in its own home?

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