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To: tejek who wrote (280396)	3/16/2006 3:42:11 AM
From: Elroy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572512

Actually the rest of the world is not doing it. There are very few true democracies the world.......I think it was somewhere between 1/4 to 1/3 of the nations in the world. 1/3rd sounds too low to me. North and South America and Europe are solidly democratic. African has plenty of democracies, albeit perhaps rife with corruption (I don't really know). Australia + Asia ex-China is pretty much democratic. India is democratic. Even Putin supposedly gets elected. And China at least has "elections" within the communist party that result in transfers of leadership to non-family members every 6-10 years. So it may not be transparent or ideal democracy everywhere, but most of the world outside the ME has some form of semi-elected government. The ME is unique as one of the only "regions" in the world that still alows some specific family to rule a population, with ZERO input from outside the family as to who gets to be in charge.