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T&T is a democracy. A democracy is defined as a state under the direct or representative rule of its people. The government rules but are the people represented?

Democracy is a factor of the rule of law. The rule of law is de facto the protection of citizens. Are we safe?

A democracy's foundation is, in practice, built on the integrity of institutions. T&T's institutions have become asylums for political kleptocracy. What form of democracy is T&T?

The commerce constituent of a democracy is the equal opportunity, fair competition and free market economic model of capitalism. T&T's State-owned enterprises (SOE's) and (government) special purpose companies have developed a monopoly/oligarchy that unfairly competes with private/free enterprise.

T&T's political system is a (parliamentary) democracy, but so is Zimbabwe, Democratic Republic of the Congo and Venezuela. Although the above-mentioned nations are defined as democracies, in practice, they are collapsed democracies evidenced by their failed state status.

It is instructive that Zimbabwe was once the food production mecca of Africa, the Congo is endowed with vast natural resource wealth, Nigeria is rich in oil and Venezuela, a First World modern country, with arguably the biggest oil reserves in the world, all have fallen under the yoke of a false democracy ruled by political malpractices.

Is T&T a democracy? Yes, of course we are. But the moot question to ask is, what kind of democracy are we''?

I offer the argument to the question stated above, with justification supported by empirical evidence, that T&T's state of democracy is substantially illustrated in the quotations that follow

Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty. Plato

A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where 51 per cent of the people may take away the rights of the other 49.Thomas Jefferson

We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.Louis D Brandeis

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What's the state of democracy, T&T? - Trinidad & Tobago Express