At The Point of a Bayonet

[Occhidiangela]

And this rant by a slaveowning pederast proves what?

It wasn't meant to prove anything, it was meant to poke fun at the virtue in exporting democracy to others as a gift. Consider the metaphor of sex as a gift, with the catch that the offerer has AIDS. In some ways, "democracy" as a gift being a poisoned pill.

Democracy has to grow from within.

Or

With the pederast angle you raised, perhaps Plato's hidden meaning was that Democrats aspire to be slaveowning pederasts. The 1860's era slave owever tended to be a Democrat in the US. Following that thought, since pederasty is not uncommon in the Arab and Muslim world, depending on place, maybe Democracy isn't such a bad gift for them after all.

Heck, we in America seem to be intent on screwing it up, why not everyone else?

Occhi