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One could argue that the form of democracy being spread by the US is in fact creating more instability and terrorism due to violent methods in which it is being
by dalore 9y ago
One could argue that the form of democracy being spread by the US is in fact creating more instability and terrorism due to violent methods in which it is being spread.
- forapurpose 9y agoThe dictators like to associate democracy with disorder, but it's the opposite: We take for granted that the most stable, prosperous, and free countries in the history of the world are all democracies. Democracy has been an incredible success for humanity, beyond the wildest dreams of millennia (but still not good enough!). > violent methods in which it is being spread That is attempted sometimes (and usually with poor results), but democracy almost always spreads peacefully: India, Brazil, South Korea, most of Europe, South Africa (albeit still a one-party democracy), Mexico, etc. etc. It's the dictatorships that try to spread their form of government through violence. We can say that if there were no dictatorships - i.e., if all countries were democracies - there probably would be no wars. Even Trump and the GOP aren't threatening war with any democracies.
- AnimalMuppet 9y agoHistorically, that [Edit: at least sometimes] worked - see West Germany and Japan. The problem with places like Iraq was that we weren't willing to occupy in overwhelming force for a decade in order to create a stable democracy. We tried to do it "on the cheap", and it failed.