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> where we could pull off the feat we did in Germany Germany was already a democracy just 12 years prior and has been a loose union of constitutional monarchie
by 1718627440 8mo ago
> where we could pull off the feat we did in Germany
Germany was already a democracy just 12 years prior and has been a loose union of constitutional monarchies for a century before. Just saying.
- rayiner 8mo agoThat’s my point. Germany already had a developed state with burgeoning democratic government. So it wasn’t a tall order to reboot it as a stable democracy. Japan likewise had already developed a modern state under Emperor Meiji.