Democracy isn't utopian? Not perfect? This has been true since the ancient Greeks hatched the idea. But it's still the best system going in our 'howling mess of a world.'
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Easy to forget how democracy in ancient Greece died because oligarchs paid orators to spread fear-mongering propaganda, persuading the electorate to hand over power to them.
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it has prevailed in Russia, over Yeltsinism, where rapacious plutocrats ruled by turning tanks on the legislature and by overcoming a 5% approval rating by total state & oligarchic media dominance, US meddling, unrestrained ‘administrative resource’ and truly massive fraud in ‘96
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This is exactly the kind of disinformation that kills real democracy,
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What in this ‘disinformation’ is untrue? Are you such a precious snowflake that you need a safe space when someone factually contradicts your narrative?
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Oh, and Stavridis was the SACEUR under whom in 2011 that Libya was ‘democratized’ into a haven for warlords & Islamist terrorists, so I’m not so sure he’s much of an authority on democracy.
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