A New Dimension of Democracy

Today is Nov 4, the day of U.S. presidential election being held across America, I feel obliged to write something before the first black president becoming a reality tonight. This will be unprecedented, and it proves to the world that the United States of America has reached a new profound level of democracy, where racial and ethnic differences being put behind anything else and only the qualities of a person being considered. This is a big change. It may not seem too big a deal to the Digital- Generation, however, it is truly unbelievable for the older generation, or even the Boomer Generation.

I always believe that only the people who have been through destitute themselves can truly understand what it means to build a strong and fair community where everyone can start with equal-footing. In a truly Utopia state, there are no such people who are classified as underprivileged- everyone is treated equally and given the best education as far as a person’s ability can absorb, of course, putting behind financial and a whole bunch of other factors.

I understand that the United States of America is still a capitalist country. But when capitalism gone too far, all we see is “greed-ism,” where investors or capitalists are looking for easy money. Investors used to enjoy moving their money from one place to another for a few hours and resulted in huge amounts of profit on the paper. When the system was built to attract investors with easy money on their minds, it will backfire- the recent financial storm and credit crisis are good examples. Who is at fault ? The system or the greedy people?  Well, I don’t like to point finger at the people and accuse them for wrong doing. Instead, I believe that people can be educated and our system can be innovated to the extent of peacefulness and fairness. I agree with Mr. Obama who believes in hard working and earning own share of capitals in a fair and reasonable way. Only success that comes from hard working will stay with us much longer and more enjoyable as well. The great entrepreneur of Taiwan, who recently passed away at the age of 92, said that he believed the prosperity of a nation is dependent upon hard work of manufacturing not the manipulation of financial market by a small group of people. The only way to avoid and prevent the financial storm from happening again is for us to go back to the basic- to find the good old passion of hard work. By the way, it is important to build a system where hard work prevails and the greed fails. I am very sure the Harvard-bred Mr. Obama knows exactly what to do starting Nov 5, 2008.

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