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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: RetiredNow who wrote (215977)1/25/2005 3:46:09 PM
From: tejek  Read Replies (1) of 1576158
 
To begin with, the idealists are right about the possibility for freedom and democracy to spread across borders and cultures. In 1775 there were no democracies. Then came the American Revolution and raised the number to one. Some 230 years later there are 117, accounting for 61% of the world's governments.

Huh? I've seen this said in other articles you've posted. Both England and France were practicing a form of democracy at that time. They were the models that our FF looked to when devising the American democracy. In fact, much of our common law comes from England's Magna Carta that I believe was written some time in the 13th century.

Comments like those above are examples of the unbridled nationalism that the right invokes. Its often based on half trues and even lies. It does not serve us well at all.

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