Words from yesteryear...
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"A democracy always degenerates into a dictatorship"
Er, no. That's obviously nonsense.
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@Copper said in Words from yesteryear...:
Name one and prove him wrong
USA doesn’t count
Name one that did and prove him right.
This whole 'we're not a democracy, we're a republic/constitutional monarchy/blah blah blah' is such an annoying, pedantic argument. It mostly appeals to people who laugh through their noses as a way of winning an argument.
If you say that the countries of Western Europe are essentially democracies, he's obviously wrong.
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@Copper said in Words from yesteryear...:
Name one and prove him wrong
USA doesn’t count
Name one that did and prove him right.
This whole 'we're not a democracy, we're a republic/constitutional monarchy/blah blah blah' is such an annoying, pedantic argument. It mostly appeals to people who laugh through their noses as a way of winning an argument.
If you say that the countries of Western Europe are essentially democracies, he's obviously wrong.
@Doctor-Phibes said in Words from yesteryear...:
@Copper said in Words from yesteryear...:
Name one and prove him wrong
USA doesn’t count
Name one that did and prove him right.
This whole 'we're not a democracy, we're a republic/constitutional monarchy/blah blah blah' is such an annoying, pedantic argument. It mostly appeals to people who laugh through their noses as a way of winning an argument.
If you say that the countries of Western Europe are essentially democracies, he's obviously wrong.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy-Dictatorship_Index
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@Doctor-Phibes said in Words from yesteryear...:
@Copper said in Words from yesteryear...:
Name one and prove him wrong
USA doesn’t count
Name one that did and prove him right.
This whole 'we're not a democracy, we're a republic/constitutional monarchy/blah blah blah' is such an annoying, pedantic argument. It mostly appeals to people who laugh through their noses as a way of winning an argument.
If you say that the countries of Western Europe are essentially democracies, he's obviously wrong.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy-Dictatorship_Index
@Jolly said in Words from yesteryear...:
@Doctor-Phibes said in Words from yesteryear...:
@Copper said in Words from yesteryear...:
Name one and prove him wrong
USA doesn’t count
Name one that did and prove him right.
This whole 'we're not a democracy, we're a republic/constitutional monarchy/blah blah blah' is such an annoying, pedantic argument. It mostly appeals to people who laugh through their noses as a way of winning an argument.
If you say that the countries of Western Europe are essentially democracies, he's obviously wrong.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy-Dictatorship_Index
There are plenty of democracies there that have never descended into dictatorship, and don't seem any more likely to than the US of A.
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@Copper said in Words from yesteryear...:
To be fair, he didn’t say how long the descent would take.
An essential skill when one is predicting the End of the World.
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It's a widely acknowledged trend and as the Wiki shows, pretty common.
What makes us so much better or smarter than other democracies? Maybe it is the simple fact we are not a democracy, as stated in the video.
A huge problem we have today, is that many in the country are working very hard to change our country from a republic to a democracy, in a short-sighted grasp for power.
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It's a widely acknowledged trend and as the Wiki shows, pretty common.
What makes us so much better or smarter than other democracies? Maybe it is the simple fact we are not a democracy, as stated in the video.
A huge problem we have today, is that many in the country are working very hard to change our country from a republic to a democracy, in a short-sighted grasp for power.
@Jolly said in Words from yesteryear...:
It's a widely acknowledged trend and as the Wiki shows, pretty common.
What makes us so much better or smarter than other democracies?
Humility?
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@Jolly said in Words from yesteryear...:
It's a widely acknowledged trend and as the Wiki shows, pretty common.
What makes us so much better or smarter than other democracies?
Humility?
@Doctor-Phibes said in Words from yesteryear...:
@Jolly said in Words from yesteryear...:
It's a widely acknowledged trend and as the Wiki shows, pretty common.
What makes us so much better or smarter than other democracies?
Humility?
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@Doctor-Phibes said in Words from yesteryear...:
@Jolly said in Words from yesteryear...:
It's a widely acknowledged trend and as the Wiki shows, pretty common.
What makes us so much better or smarter than other democracies?
Humility?
Speaking of false modesty, Britain arguably stopped being a dictatorship in 1215, but obviously it took a long time after that before it could be described as a democracy.
I’m unconvinced there is less risk of the USA descending into dictatorship than there is there.
