Democracy Definitions Debate
Comments debate the true nature of democracy, questioning whether Western countries like the US and Europe are genuine democracies or flawed oligarchies, and contrasting them with dictatorships and other regimes using indices and examples.
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It has never been a democracy. But again the us and europe have no democracies either. Only a lot of freedom.
There are countries that are much closer to democracies than the US at least.
good point. why did all these countries become democracies in the first place? we should revert to autocracy /s
Countries well known for their fair democracies right?
It's downvoted because it implies that this is generally true of Western democracies—that they're not actually any better than foreign dictatorships, as a category.
Worlds of difference between those countries and functioning democracies.
To bring a bit of perspective on everything, it's good to remember that democracy, or what the West idealises as such, is not necessarily the ultimate regime that every country in the world needs to follow right now for its own sake.Of course there are places when power is abused, taken, stolen from entire populations but not every society is fit or ready for what we'd like to think as the world standard of governance.Cultural, historical reasons, micro and macro economies
Can you explain what you mean about "democracy in place until recently"?
Probably other "democratic" countries?
I prefer a western democracy over an easter dictatorship any day.And only because the US democracy is going the way of Poland and Hungary and it is close to fail in Turkey doesn't mean it will fail everywhere.Taiwan has a democracy, South Korea just ousted their president because of allegation that she is corrupt.