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As Churchill once famously said, democracy is the worst form of government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.
I guess one of the nicest things about democracy is that it has a built-in mechanism for removing a government. It may not be reliable at getting good leaders in place, but at least when there's a bad one it has a way of getting them back out again without having to go in shooting.
Do you have any idea how long senators serve? Racist, violent, war hawk, regressive leaders stay in office in the USA for decades. How about family dynasties? The number of years American and European democracies are managed by family dynasties is terrible. And then of course you have fascists getting elected to high office in Italy.
All the evidence shows that Western democracies are going to end in violence.
Interestingly, Cuba has more democracy than anything ever experienced in the North Atlantic. Because the point isn't to use democracy to get representation, it's to use democracy to change society in the interests of the people.
Wait, did somebody say Kennedy?
The fact that you think that genocidal scumbag had good ideas means your opinion can be safely discarded.
He had some good ideas. He was right about Poland being the hyena of Europe.
fair point
Lol, what?
Churchill oversaw one of the biggest genocides in history in India ignoramus.
That means everything he says is false?
Oh, the irony.
the only irony here is you comment ๐
Not really.
it's clearly what you believe
Nope.
good job contradicting yourself little buddy
Why do you care so much?
I spent way more time than i'm willing to admit trying to figure out what swear the filter was removing.
I'm not seeing anyone removing Biden or Netanhitler from power though?