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Let me explain to you by beginning with the huge-smiley Jimmy Carter and the flamboyant Ronald Reagan. In 1979, facing the crisis of oil coming from the Middle East tension, Jimmy Carter did nothing to calm down the inflation and rising unemployment, but dared to stand up and criticize his people's heavy demand on material wealth. Sadly, although he saw the problem of the issue, his solution did not satisfy American; therefore, the brilliant "speech of malaise" cost him the re-election in the challenge with the hero Ronald Reagan. And what did Mr. Reagan do to save the nation? The plan to to encourage people continue to raise demand and increase purchase to stimulate the economy, which action disguised the future threat in the temporary material wealth sucking from the budget of the government. Here is the problem. The raising requirement of consumers had been putting corporation in depending on other places for cheaper labor and resources. As we see today, jobs ranging from workers to doctors have been shipping to Chindia (China + India) due to its affordable wage. During the time of Carter, the oil exploitation was slowly shifting to the Middle East so that cheaper products could be distributed to consumers. However, "never is enough." President Carter wisely realized the growing demand with a non-stop pace from his people in purchasing cars, devices and home appliances. While we don't stop to want more, nature has its own limit in resource. If we continue to indulge ourselves, we will put our future children in a more dangerous environment where products are unaffordable due to the scarcity of resource and where natural disasters hit their lives instantaneously caused by the imbalance in natural temperature as the so-called Global Warming. There is more impact in this while the scope of this article doesn't allow me to list. So, what does the problem relate to the Democracy system? In fact, the problem would have not existed if the government had more power in controlling the requirement and the endless demand of citizens, who are considered as consumers. There is a difference in the purpose of a Democracy nation and a authoritarian regime. A government voted by the people must work for the demand of its people; while a regime aims to make a better nation. Revising on Jimmy Carter’s circumstance, He was a wise man, and he was the one who can save the nation; however, it was the voting system that didn't allow him to win by stating the inconvenient truth. People want more and they need a person who can give them more. That psychological fact was the foundation for Ronald Reagan's success in his career. Knowing that supplying these demands will put the US more and more dependent on other nations, which circumstance turned the US into a fragile superpower, Reagan regardless boosted the demand by calling for unlimited purchases. The economy soared, but the government deficit raised as the US had no way but to involved in the conflicts of the Middle East just to keep the oil source stable. The policy led to future immoral cost ranging from infamous Rwanda, Nicaragua to flaming Iraq and Afghanistan as we know today. Communist leaders and philosophers saw this. There were reasons motivating them to organize the Communist party that we, who are living in Democracy, can't understand of. Since a civilization is a density of culture, the ideology and belief of a nation must be unify; that means there must be no ethnical clash within the country and the citizen must learn to sacrifice part of their benefit for the best of its own nation. Only under a regime that nationalism exists. There is only patriotism in America, which thinking motivate people to project what the nation deliver to them; in the other words, it is selfish.
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