Participatory democracy - a Malaysian attempt

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I recently wrote an article where I picked apart the notion of parliamentary democracy as it is practised in Malaysia and made the statement that it is not what our nation needs. The article itself was perhaps a little sensational. I didn’t reject parliamentary democracy in its entirety, rather the notion that in its current form it disempowers the common man and only empowers the elite. To understand the alternative to this we must ask at least two questions. One, what is the end-state that we want? Two, how do we achieve this end-state? In this article, I will explore the first of these questions.What are we, then, trying to achieve? As I stated in the previous article, the problem with the current political system is the alienation of the common man from making important decisions as a collective unit with their fellow countrymen. There is no room to raise the issues faced …