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Originally Posted by Dottore

You need to get out more.

Democracy is not always the answer. What happens in a country where the populations is simply too ignorant about politics to make an informed choice? Do you remember the Philippines in the 1980's when Corazon Aquino was elected because everyone that voted for her got a yellow T-shirt? Is that a meaningful democracy?

Or what about a place like Iraq or (the former) Yugoslavia, where there are such violent ethnic/tribal and religious tensions, that any merely democratic system would elected the majority tribe/group and ensure the minorities are wiped out?

And what about the many countries in the third world whose institutions are so corrupt that a fair and democratic election is not possible and the result rigged and meaningless?

And what happens when you have a combination of the three scenarios above?

You need to be a giggling virgin to seriously believe a meaningful democracy is possible and desirable in every country on this planet today. It is not. It is a laudable goal no doubt; but it is absolute friggin pie-in-the-sky in many places.

But communism works everywhere right?