Quote of the day 24th July 2019


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Jim said…
Except democracy has not been tried, oh, well you could argue its very well on the way in Switzerland.
Chris Whiteside said…
A wide variety of forms of democracy have been tried in various different countries at various different times.

Parliamentary democracy, rule by elected Presidents, direct democracy.

All different - the only rule which invariable works is that any country which has "Democratic" in its' name isn't.

Of the countries which really have adopted one form or other of open democracy, none of them are perfect but as Winston correctly argued, all of them worked better than absolute monarchy, aristocracy, oligarchy, dictatorship, or a "people's republic."

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