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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (126605)3/21/2004 2:47:16 AM
From: Sam  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
Sure democracies do wrong. But fascist dictatorships do more wrong. Lots more wrong.

You give the impression that you cannot tell that Saddam's Iraq, and not democratic America, was a fascist dictatorship.

Here is the problem: you're a democracy until you're not a democracy anymore. And when that line is crossed, it is always crossed for what appear to many people--probably even a "majority"--to be "good" reasons. That is why most educated people until the 19th century (including many and perhaps even most of the people we call "founding fathers) were not democrats, did not think of "democracy" and "good government" as synonymous, as most of us today somewhat mindlessly do.
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