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Re: Democracy is not easy. Its not like riding a bike........a couple of times with training wheels and then you are on your way. It takes a lot of work and commitment.
Indeed! Just ask the Swiss:
1971: Swiss women get the vote
Swiss women can now vote in federal elections and stand for parliament after a national referendum.
The official result shows 621,403 of the all-male electorate supported the vote for women and 323,596 were against.
All of the Swiss political parties, both houses of parliament, and many church and business leaders supported the vote for women.
The Swiss media has also welcomed the result. Tribune de Geneve said the referendum ended a status quo that had become "unjust, untenable and abused".
The poll was almost a complete reversal of a 1959 referendum, when women were refused the federal vote by a 2-1 majority.
news.bbc.co.uk
Now compare that with Malaysia, a Muslim country:
Female suffrage: 1957 [47th of 166]
Definition: Year in which women received the right to vote. Data refer to the year in which right to vote or stand for election on a universal and equal basis was recognized. Where two years are shown, the first refers to the first partial recognition of the right to vote.
First female parliamentarian: 1959 (elected) [94th of 159]
Definition: Year first woman elected or appointed to parliament.
nationmaster.com
So tell me, how come you, Holy Crusaders for Democracy, didn't invade and napalm Switzerland, back in the 1960s, instead of Vietnam?? You ought to have bombed the Swiss into enfranchising women, ought you not?
You Yanks keep blathering about Democracy while all your Mideast policy boils down to enforcing a Judeocracy, that is, the Israeli Judeocracy... Your notion of democracy is increasingly tainted by racial prejudice --hence the growing mess you yanks are creating for yourselves the world over... Don't expect the rest of the world to agree with your "racialized" version of democracy. Democracy, that is, a global democracy, can't be a sort of worldwide caucus wherein one country or one race --however "chosen" or "indispensable" it fancies itself-- enjoys a "golden share"(*) status... got what I mean?
Gus
(*) Glossary: Golden Share
Updated Nov 2002
A share which has voting rights capable of exercising a veto over specified or significant changes to the constitution or articles of association of a company.
The term came into common usage through the 1980s to refer to the government's continuing interest in companies which it had privatized.
The golden share supposedly protects a privatized company from being taken over. But some people say it was designed to protect the management from the real competitive world!
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