Democracy is Dying Democracy is merely a delusion. The way politics are formed in modern history leave little to no room for anyone to run for candidate. Democracy has flourished in modern day societies, wars and revolutions have been conducted in it's name and it is considered one of the most fundamental values in the world. However the truth is that it's not the best regime in fact Plato argued extensively that democracy is the second worst regime claiming that democratic societies are doomed to sink in anarchy and corruption. However Plato wrote about the Athenian democratic system which was 10.000 times less corrupted and less complicated than modern day democracies. Ancient Athenians would gather multiple times a year at the general assembly known as the "ecclesia" and would directly vote by raising their hands. Everyone was allowed to participate and also run for candidate regardless of social or financial class. Nowadays democracies are not that simple. In fact they have sustained so many alterations that they have nothing to do with good old Athenian democracy. Modern democracy is so perplexed that even political scientists have a hard time studying it. It is astonishing how a once simple concept has turned into a multifaceted phenomenon that has almost lost its initial meaning and yet people would still give their lives in the name of it. Though we must face the fact that democracy is declining and the decline is rapid. The above statement is proven by the sudden rise of the far right both in the U.S and the E.U . Moreover the decline of Democracy also indicates the decline of Western Civilization. People seem to be bewildered by the current role of democracy. Unemployment, dept, crime rates, wars, poverty, social injustice all these are global issues which democracy has failed to tackle. In fact some people believe that democracy is the very cause of these problems. If we go back in history we'll come accross wars, kingdoms falling, revolutions, coup d'états. There's only one thing that always remains unchanged throughout the course of time and that is : CHANGE. Everything changes and democracy is not impervious to that. One day maybe in the not so long distant future people will have to see democracy drawing its last breath.