Death of Democracy

How Democracy Dies

It has been a recently debated issues whether universities should serve as an institution to broaden the mind of the individual, or to provide the skills needed to create a better working force. All too often as students we groan at the very reality of having to complete prerequisite courses that have nothing in common with our majors. Echoes of wanting to bypass these classes and dive straight into our major often can be heard amongst the conversations of almost all college students. Can such blame for this career driven attitude really be placed on the students themselves? This is the very thing they are told from adolescents that promises a lifelong equation for happiness.

Democracy is a phenomenal system that allows one to pursue their own endeavors in an attempt to find a path of happiness and success. It frees an individual of the shackles that use to enslave people to a life that was pre-determined for them based on their parent’s level in society. Being born from parents who were agriculturalist or even steal workers, prevented their children from being anything more. American Democracy inhibits that system and allows any individual to rise above the class they were born into, and if they so choose, move to a higher economic class. Ideally, American Democracy allows for a child who was raised in poverty to one day being able to peruse a career such as The President of the United States.

Like in Patrick J. Deneen article How Democracy Dies, he makes the connection between the well-being of Democracy and the career centered student using the observations Tocqueville made while visiting the United States. Tocqueville noticed that while American Democracy was an impressive system it did cause an uneasy feeling amongst the citizenry. He observed that because Americans did not have to worry about being placed in a class system from birth, this in turn caused an anxiety amongst Americans to continue to strive for better even though...