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Are there democratic societies on this planet?

• mrangle 4y ago
  The symbolism articulated by the Greeks seems to indicate not. Consider the logic that a government has an ever-greater interest in promoting its Nation as quintessentially democratic the more antidemocratic that it becomes. In this case, superficial public participation and the government's elusive visible validity scale together. Whereas in the archetype of a truly democratic society (I say archetype because it may not exist), the government arguably has a motivation to discourage the promotional image of and participation in democracy. Because in this case, democratic participation is an actual threat to power. This theory only holds for nations that have any democratic pretense. Which likely has more to do with foreign policy than anything else. How many Western Nations fall over themselves to align themselves with democracy?