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The west has the best functioning democracies, unless you can provide better examples. No true Scotsman.
by return0 13y ago
The west has the best functioning democracies, unless you can provide better examples. No true Scotsman.
- PythonicAlpha 13y agoStill you cling on black and white thinking and to the notion, that things will never change. They do! Also: Who on earth says, that there is even one good functioning democracy at all? "It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried." Churchill
- pavel_lishin 13y agoI'm not disagreeing with that, nor am I packing up my bags to move out of the United States at the moment. However, "the best we've got right now" is just a local maxima.
- PythonicAlpha 13y agoThat's something, that makes me shiver, too!
- betterunix 13y agoNote that "best functioning" can be worlds different from "well functioning."
- throwaway2048 13y ago"no true scotsman" only applies when you are attempting to continually redefine something after the fact, it has nothing to do with the claims made here.