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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: koan who wrote (763252)1/11/2014 12:24:03 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 1573092
 
No democracy is not the main thing that holds us together. Civil society is. A society can be held together without democracy, but if civil society falls apart it can only be held together with brutal repression.

Which isn't a statement against democracy, its better than the alternatives, even in many cases specifically better at holding a country together, it contributes to that as well as having other benefits. But it isn't the only thing that holds society together, and it certainly isn't all of society.
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