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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: cosmicforce who wrote (114524)7/3/2009 1:51:43 PM
From: Dale Baker  Read Replies (1) of 541877
 
Similarly, in poor countries, democracy ofttimes becomes a straight jacket of dependency upon an oligarchy

Without democracy, you are guaranteed to be reliant on a junta, period. The dreamy idea of benevolent dictators achieving great reforms is mostly absent from the actual historical record (apart from the usual self-serving rationalizations of various tyrants). Singapore is usually the exception that is cited, but island-states don't count much in my calculus.

Better the angry mob than the bloodthirsty, power-mad kleptocracies that inevitably exist in their place. The historical record in Latin America has way too much proof of that, from Guatemala to Chile and back.
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