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I think it would behoove you to explain HOW and by what mechanism American democracy, that is our own, works before considering that we have any power capable of spreading that system, or something like it, to any random country. Much less those which have threatening political goals and likely possess very different institutions and instruments of power and determinations of status within their society.
I'd also question: should we impose…I mean spread…our system by force? How effective does that seem in practice or in retrospect? And how much does it cost us to do so relative to the supposed benefit of inducing democratic rule? Assuming we have figured out how to do so successfully, which seems to be at a best a highly dubious assumption.
I think we should attempt to spread our bill of rights, but as for our democracy. Well our particular version and methods of voting are not the 'strengths' we should be spreading.
Agreed.
Definitely agree.
This nation was designed as a REPUBLIC . . . NOT a Democracy! Our founders knew that there has NEVER been a successful Democracy in the history of mankind – they have ALWAYS failed!
We need to return to the Constitutional Republic that our founders designed. Then we should lead by example – in other words just let the rest of the world see how we do it and then maybe they might want to try it our way.
Forcing, by whatever means, a democracy upon any other nation is just plain wrong.
“….there has NEVER been a successful Democracy in the history of mankind – they have ALWAYS failed!”
Given the same static measure of success/fail = same with republics.
The problem isn’t with the various labels of governance models, it’s with fundamental differences in what constitutes a successful economic frame.
One needs only to look at the distribution (or redistribution, same thing if you think about it just a tiny bit) of wealth in any given society to gauge whether it is succeeding or failing.
The economic-political model current to the US (since the co-opting of the 14th amendment; Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad Company [118 U.S. 394 (1886)], and the adoption of now global free market [and failed] policies since Reagan/Thatcher) has already been spread, and the state of the global economy is evidence of that failure.
I dont think so. The last time we tried to spread our democracy, Russia got involved and look at what happened to Korea.