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It fits very well into the narrative that democracy is ineffective and basically a hot-house flower, that some culprits propell.
by picadores 3y ago
It fits very well into the narrative that democracy is ineffective and basically a hot-house flower, that some culprits propell.
- aerique 3y agoYes, as long as said autocrats spent billions to undermine it ;-)
- Agraillo 3y agoWhat keeps my hope for democracies in the world is an observation I made after reading The Year 2000 by Joseph Goebbels written on 25 February 1945. He more or less said that Stalin wasn't bound by the rules of democracies then he would succeed after all. I like to analyze such predictions because you know the outcome and you can guess what was wrong when someone wrote this. My version is that democracies have values kept while transitioning from a state to a state (after elections) while dictatorships change in many respects. It was visible in the Soviet Union, every new ruler brought a new system despite the fact that they all claimed to fight for the same goals.
- eric_cc 3y agoDemocracy is an ideal. There absolutely are bad implementations, democracies that get hijacked and are democracies in-name-only, dumb populaces, etc.