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Sometimes you have to die to get back stronger. Ask the chinese.

• idiotsecant 5mo ago
  I'm not sure that works for democracy. Autocracy is basically the default human state. All it takes to build it back up is a sufficiently powerful faction. Democracy is relatively fragile by comparison and requires more specific initial conditions - I would make the argument that democracies are the lower entropy condition.
  • elzbardico 5mo ago
    Ask the Germans what happens when a democracy degenerates.
    • idiotsecant 5mo ago
      That's a good example. The west forced reconstruction of German democracy. If the Nazi state had been less aggressive it might have still been around today as a North Korea style autocratic state.