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1. the history of democracy is very short, it's no foregone conclusion that it is the best option regardless of pithy quotes from Churchill or what we would lik
by bllguo 5y ago
1. the history of democracy is very short, it's no foregone conclusion that it is the best option regardless of pithy quotes from Churchill or what we would like to believe (and yes I know that "best" and "worst" are doing a lot of work in our statements)
2. there are many implementations of democracy possible and extant, so even if we think democracy is the ideal government that is still no defense of the US
- carapace 5y agoI would say it's the best option so far. Conventional wisdom holds that autocracy is better, if-and-only-if you have a good autocrat. It's said the old women wept when the King of Bhutan decreed Democracy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhutanese_democracy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhutanese_democracy