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Yea, and most young democracies are very vulnerable. You can look at the Arab Spring for examples of failed democracies, and the early United States (it took us
by codyb 4y ago
Yea, and most young democracies are very vulnerable. You can look at the Arab Spring for examples of failed democracies, and the early United States (it took us 20 years to get off the Articles of Confederation and work on the Constitution we use today).
Myanmar's another one. India's been restricting its people's rights lately.
Democracy takes a while to establish as a stable system and often fails.
Alexander the Great was granting (non-representative) democracies to cities in Asia Minor 2400 years ago, I wonder what he'd think of Erdogan.
- AmpsterMan 4y agoThe Thirteen Colonies had a long history of democratic self governance. The revolution was mostly an independence movement. The revolutionary part was the Republican federation. This long history of democratic rule was not present in many modern attempts to establish democracies.