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Last time I checked I didn't see any democracy in the Western sense of the word in the western world. Except for Switzerland maybe Examples: Tapping phones wi
by terranstyler 13y ago
Last time I checked I didn't see any democracy in the Western sense of the word in the western world.
Except for Switzerland maybe
Examples:
Tapping phones without warrant
Searching homes without without warrant
A policy of guilty until proven innocent
Torture
- pron 13y agoObviously we have much to live up to. Democracy has always been more ideal than reality. But societies differ in their place along a "democracy" spectrum, and Russia and the Ukraine are much farther from that ideal than the west.
- terranstyler 13y agoI know, but historically compared there were times when the above 4 "non-democratic behaviors" didn't occur (or they occurred less frequently or at least we didn't know). I see a tendency away from democracy which in my eyes destroys any credibility of the West to spearhead a democratic movement.