The Promise of Democracy
A Broken Word
12 min readMay 28, 2022
Democracy is the promise of a voice. It is the promise that the voice of every man counts, regardless of his riches, his family connections, his education, his skin colour or his native tongue. When a man on any occasion is granted a voice, a man is thus handed power; specifically, he is handed the power of harmonising his current position, by making the other voices in the room chime to the sound…