If we are desirous of improvement of our lot the most important thing we have to understand is importamce of common cooperative efforts at local level. Our society is too much fractured and we have lots of divisions based on caste, language, region, gender, religion, economy, resource, education , ideology etc. As long as we aspire to carry such divisions we cant improve our lot. Governments have their own priorities and we as a common man have little chance to interfere into the policy making and policy implementation processes. Although we live in a democracy yet centralized democracy has little to offer to a common men community. Governments focus on big issues and such big issues when implemented at ground level have too much corruption. Till now we have not seen any enthusiasm for eradicating corruption without politics. At the same time the political leadership is not interested in equipping itself with modern ideas, rather political goals are always important. Similarly bureaucratic heirarchy is so rigid and stubborn that there is no place for innovation. For this heirarchy keeping political bosses in good humour is every thing. Common man is left to exist to feed the system by making contributions in the vote politics and treasury by paying tax, cess and fine. This CENTRIPETAL ECONOMY, where entiire resources are pulled towards the center creates CENTRIFUGAL DEMOCRACY, a democracy which throws away public after syphoning them.
Under such circumstances common people have one very effective option and that option is of local cooperation to spread education, to accelarate production, to sharpen skills, to mitigate divisions.just by putting own intellect, time, energy, and some amount of money. If we are ready governments will have to come to terms with local people efforts sooner or later. No Election Commission, no Supreme Court, no Political Party will do an empowerment exercise for you, rather you have to compel the democracy to shed its ELITISM.