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How many times do you have to fight off a foreign power seeking to impose its will on your society before you get a pass for not setting up a democracy when you
by throwaway0a5e 5y ago
How many times do you have to fight off a foreign power seeking to impose its will on your society before you get a pass for not setting up a democracy when you're done?
- handrous 5y agoOK, so they can be handy, in the hands of a government-in-exile looking to replace a foreign-imposed kleptocracy with a restoration of their own religious authoritarian state. That's granting that we can call enough of what they've got "private arms" for them to be a significant factor in the first place (I truly don't know how that would break down—maybe most of their soldiers really do go out and buy their own guns, before joining the cause). Even so, none of that seems to have much to do with keeping one's own government liberal and democratic, though, which is what I'm interested in.