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Originally Posted by loquitur
*snip* I get the impression that the administration assumed that liberal democracy is a default position for humanity, which is decidedly not the case - it's a relatively rare and relatively recent exception to prior human experience. And when a culture doesn't support liberal democracy, an implemented democracy fails -- as it regularly does in Haiti, as it did in Zimbabwe, as it did several times in Nigeria, and on and on and on.*snip*
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I think you're right in that we continue to try turning societies that are socially and/or economically broken into democracies when it should be working the other way around.
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