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> The west has been trying to spread liberal democracy for over the past 100 years. It is successful in some places, but not in others. I think success largely
by GordonS 5y ago
> The west has been trying to spread liberal democracy for over the past 100 years. It is successful in some places, but not in others.
I think success largely depends on how democracy arrives - we've seen time and time again that forcing it upon a country (whether by military force or the more skullduggerous, CIA kind of force) is doomed to failure. I believe it needs to come naturally, slowly, over time.
- wolverine876 5y agoIt's hard to deliver democracy and freedom by oppressive means; the means undermine the ends. However, it's also a common error of the privileged to consign the suffering to wait for a slow, gradual process that results in their entire lives passing by, and those of their children and grandchildren, etc.