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Cuba, Chile, Argentina. They all had democracies, and then collapsed into dictatorships. I'm sure someone more knowledgeable could also name some African or Mid
by redial 10y ago
Cuba, Chile, Argentina. They all had democracies, and then collapsed into dictatorships. I'm sure someone more knowledgeable could also name some African or Middle Eastern countries.
- AlgorithmicTime 10y agoWhen did Cuba have a functional democracy?
- appleflaxen 10y agoiran
- CapitalistCartr 10y agoIran got that because the CIA did it forcibly.
- saiya-jin 10y agotrue, and true for Chile also (and probably more)
- tremon 10y agoI'm tentatively adding Turkey to that list.
- Ericson2314 10y agoCan somebody unflag the Cuba comment? The US puppet dictators are hard to defend.
- yahyaheee 10y agoAs some others have pointed out, there is a lot of evidence that hear democracies were overthrown because of western influence.
- redial 10y agoDoes that even matter? Democracy does not make you inmune to the rest of the world. Democracy is not only an idea and if you want to claim its robustness you have to make sure it is able to cope, in practice, with internal and external opposition, just like all other forms of government. I'm just pointing out that in many cases it has not.
- yahyaheee 10y agoOh I totally agree, it almost seems that democracy works best when wealth and resources are abundant. This abundance is often at the cost of other nations, in which democracy probably won't last because of the external pressure.
- _0ffh 10y agoGermany as well.
- foota 10y agoThe other countries people have stated make sense, I wasn't aware of a serious issue with Germany? Unless you're referring to Hitler?
- _0ffh 10y agoAs another example for "western democracy is not assured to work in the long run, many countries after adopting it have gone back to monarchies or dictatorships". So yeah, Weimar Republic.