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We have been describing the loss of democracy being experienced all over the world. In writing about this loss of democracy we have referred in our past writing about the invoking of the Rule of Law as an excuse to disregard the intention to protect the well being of people. And in general, we have referred to the present economic globalization as an instrument to bypass the will of people and to force the will of most of today's rich politicians and their allied big corporations.

We have President Unelected George Bush pushing an economic stimulus which economist Paul Krugman says will give "at least $600,000 in corporate tax breaks for every job created." And we have Italian Prime Minister Media Baron Silvio Berlusconi who is using his own just passed legislation 'sulle rogatorie' to protect himself from fiscal and accounting frauds in the All Iberian trial in Spain. As to say that we have a loss of democracy and a loss of leadership.

President Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin are meeting in Texas to make arrangements for a mutual reduction of nuclear war heads. Also, President Bush wants Russia to agree on the useless building of the National Missile Defense System. President Putin is warming up to Bush's idea of this missile defense system and as a consequence former US Assistant Defense Secretary Kenneth Adelman writes "we must protect civilization. Hence the need for missile defense: The ultimate insurance against a terrorist who gets hold of ballistic missiles and tops them with a weapon of mass destruction... Contrary to sweeping theories like Marxism or economic determinism, it is leaders who shape events, not abstract "trends" or "conditions." Individual men and women can turn history."

First of all the National Missile Defense System is a joke for countering the type of terrorism we have been experiencing lately. But what bothers me most is the ideological selling of this Bush administration. Adelman states that it is not Marxism or economic determinism that shape events, and he is right since economics is a social evolving science. And he is also right that in today's absence of democracy we have the visible hands of our individual leaders turning our history. But Aldeman forgot to say that our history is turning for the worst as these leaders legitimize their stealing from others.

We must understand that our hegemonic democracy is creating individual men and women who can turn history for the worst, and we must also learn to understand that a true democracy creates people who always turn history for the best.

References

Pertinent articles published in Ensign

Other people's money, by Paul Krugman, New York Times, November 14, 2001 http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/14/opinion/14KRUG.html

Dal legislatore all'utilizzatore: Berlusconi usufruirà della nuova legge sulle rogatorie, di Susanna Ripamonti, 14 Novembre 2001 http://www.unita.it/dy_notizie_inc.asp?articolo=HP2

Putin: No More 'Nyet' on Missile Defense, by Kenneth Adelman, November 14, 2001 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,38702,00.html