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That depends on what you consider "working". I would certainly consider most modern democracies to work, some slightly better than others. Certainly all modern
by DasIch 11y ago
That depends on what you consider "working". I would certainly consider most modern democracies to work, some slightly better than others. Certainly all modern democracies are stable and not threatened with catastrophic failure.
The democracy in the Weimar Republic didn't work by any reasonable definition because it was horribly designed. If the Nazis hadn't happened, someone else would've almost cetainly destroyed it sooner rather than later.
- TeMPOraL 11y ago> Certainly all modern democracies are stable and not threatened with catastrophic failure. What would you call climate change, or coming energy crisis, or degenerating trust of public in authority leading to things like anti-vaccination movements? I consider them existential threats to technological civilization. Those problems are issues of coordination, and they play right into failure modes of modern democracies. In this sense I consider them not "working".