What Happened To Democracy?

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This is not a rant or even a chastisement of any kind. I'm not even angry - just totally disillusioned with..... There are people in this world who get an idea in their heads and no amount of shaking that head is going to cause that idea to fall out their ears and into the trash where it belongs. Instead, these people will work that idea into a whole life scenario and and work it and work it until the object of their 'affliction' is either driven to howling at the moon, or retreating within themselves to the point of pain. Facts and truths are not even considered. Personalities and personal styles of expression are not even considered. No quarter is given to the details left out, or the ENTIRE picture - only the myopic view. An idea takes hold and these people run with it, bulldozing their way through apologies, attempts to explain, the 'object's' own right to THEIR opinion. We are not cookie cutter individuals. We can not be held accountable for the thoughts, desires, actions or beliefs of others. So why do we try to make everyone we have a 'problem' with conform to OUR idea of who they are, who they should be, what WE demand of them? It's nonsense. The lack of tolerance, the outright warping of perceptions, the GRIEF we bring to ourselves and others around us when we demand conformity from them should be against the laws of God and man. Most of us live in a democratic society. But we no longer practice it. We are all too busy asserting ourselves, our rights and frankly, our need to be accepted. Well if being accepted means conforming - you can have it. As I said, we are not cookie cutter individuals. How boring life would be if that were true. What a loss of art, beauty and progress we would be forced to endure. Look around you people. Look at your neighbours, your friends and your own hearts. Are you democratic, or do you demand democracy for yourself while denying it to others?