01-21-2005, 10:52 PM
Hi,
I actually think the model is fairly apt. While there are very few countries whose people don't like having democracy, those countries are actually democratic. If you look at the state of Latin America for most of the last century, when "democracy" was "spread", they ended up very much like Eastern Europe under communism: oppressive little hellholes where the majority of people deeply resented the system which had been imposed on them from outside.
Where democracy comes about by mostly internal processes, it is well liked. So are most systems, so long as it was created locally and genuinely. Try to stuff any such system down some nation's throat, and it will fail, doubly so if the nation doing the stuffing has ulterior motives.
Jester
I actually think the model is fairly apt. While there are very few countries whose people don't like having democracy, those countries are actually democratic. If you look at the state of Latin America for most of the last century, when "democracy" was "spread", they ended up very much like Eastern Europe under communism: oppressive little hellholes where the majority of people deeply resented the system which had been imposed on them from outside.
Where democracy comes about by mostly internal processes, it is well liked. So are most systems, so long as it was created locally and genuinely. Try to stuff any such system down some nation's throat, and it will fail, doubly so if the nation doing the stuffing has ulterior motives.
Jester