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Someone should send a memo Bashar al Assad that "dire consequences" are a valid reason to postpone democracy. In fact, democracy seems to be reserved only for
by antocv 10y ago
Someone should send a memo Bashar al Assad that "dire consequences" are a valid reason to postpone democracy.
In fact, democracy seems to be reserved only for use by western NATO powers, even when not respecting a democratic vote, while imposing democracy "with dire consequences" on the rest of the world.
- thesimon 10y ago>even when not respecting a democratic vote The "Brexit" vote was nothing more than an opinion poll. There is no direct democracy in the UK.
- antocv 10y agoIndeed. al Assads next interview "Sure, I did not win the vote, but this is not a direct democracy, the presidential ballot is mere a poll". Direct democracy for export to some (exclude Saudi), power for others. All this Brexit event just highlights the hypocrisy when calling Russian political system names and criticizing it for lack of democracy and other positive terms-on-paper.
- M2Ys4U 10y agoExplicitly advisory referendums are different to elections.