This thing conveniently forgets that the Russian democracy was aborted when the US bought Yeltsin. Also, China was never a western style democracy, the political system of the US, Hungary, Turkey, China and Russia are hardly comparable.https://twitter.com/TheEconomist/status/1048785226376392704 …
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Yes, I do. Historically, democracies have never been stable for much more than a couple hundred years, and it is not clear that this time, it is going to be different.
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Do you suggest that the US looks long term stable to you, or that the interventions of the US since WW2 tend to turn dictatorships into democracies rather than the other way around?
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For what it's worth, working class whites and college class whites are already different minorities that rarely intermarry and share few cultural traits. Based on historical observations, cultural inhomogeneity makes democracy less stable, not more.
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Did you notice that the two groups of whites were much more divided in their voting behavior than other minorities? Having no alternative to a single ruling party (or to a single system of policies represented as two different brands) is not producing stability.
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to the contrary. the fact that someone who is not a member of or affiliated with the political class gets to be POTUS indicates that the system has become unstable
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yes, I sometimes reconsider upsides and downsides of commenting, but too late
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