The electoral system in democratic countries, although it is used as an ideal system in the service of democracy, it has been developed step by step and experience after experience. While, it has been updated, but there are some comments and criticisms of this system in the Western mindset and political worldview of their thinkers. The reason is that they were brought up in a political and intellectual culture that has been encouraged by criticism since the Enlightenment, under the influence of the Renaissance and reappearance to ancient Greece.
In this process, important experiences and events in Western history, especially the rise of religious extremist movements such as the Jesuits (Jews or Soldiers of Christ/Foundation in the sixteenth century AD) and also fascism and Nazism play their awareness-raising role. Thus all these understandings and experiences have led Western subjectivity and thinkers to follow democracy and at the same time seek the best, most current and most appropriate version of democracy in this historical path.
The fact that we have experienced democratization in the Middle East in a violent direction is due to two reasons. First, countries known as the bearers and founders of democracy do not necessarily offer democracy as a golden gift to other countries. The second reason is the non-Western culture itself or the same patriarchal Eastern culture that does not easily yield to a set of basic values and disciplines as a substitute for the whole system and worldview that has been in place for years.
An outstanding example of this was the situation in Afghanistan, where after more than twenty years of US and coalition attacks on al-Qaeda’s values and cultures, the project failed for the above two reasons and cost millions of dollars and victims and killed. The refugees were returned. This situation is groundless democracy or imported democracy, which will result in the worst case like Afghanistan and the best case like Iraq, which is a so-called political federal system. This equation is also true in some ways for a country like Iran. From the beginning of the rise of the constitution until the Iranian People’s Revolution, there has been a low and complicated situation of democracy in this country. What has been seen so far is not democracy but the opposite direction. That is why famous thinkers and sociologists such as “Dr. Ali Mir writes in his book Democracy or Truth: “The achievement of democracy in Iran has become the most important political, social and cultural issue of the day.
