What people expect from democracy?

What people wanted yesterday, and what they still expect from democracy is the question they answer themselves: “Nothing but free health-care and quality education up to matriculation to all; egg, butter and roti and cooking oil and meat to citizens at easily affordable price; and opportunities without any discrimination because democracy means people’s system of equality and fraternity”.
“Didn’t Quaid-i-Azam
Mohammad Ali Jinnah
stress this point in his address to his party workers during struggle for Pakistan?” they ask.
The fact is that majority of growing children have always participated in struggle for democracy and socio-economic revolution.
Educated youths of Rawalpindi and Islamabad believe in selfless service to community and do not want homeland governed by any such persons about whom the father of the nation had cautioned four years before Pakistan came into being. He had warned the landlords and capitalists who flourish at
the expense of masses by a vicious and wicked system “which makes them so selfish that it’s difficult to reason with them.”
The unemployed youths stand by the founder of Pakistan, and believe that
greed and selfishness makes such exploiters subordinate to the interests of others
in order to fatten themselves with the result that millions are hardly getting one meal a day.
“Decades have passed, but the situation has not changed for the better; that wasn’t the aim of Pakistan,” lament city elders, but they see a ray of hope in current phase of democracy.
People have great expectations for their problems have multiplied. “We’ll have to decrease our dependence on the outside world for necessities of life -- and think of giving more employment to our talents and also make up mind to fully mobilise the resources and potentialities God has bestowed on our country,” say senior citizens.
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