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Politics : The Trump Presidency -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: combjelly who wrote (216521)11/5/2021 2:54:42 PM
From: koan  Respond to of 362677
 
Oh, no question about democracy being a terrible system, except for all others :)>.

The book Democracy in America by De Tocqueville laid out the dilemma well.

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Sure, democracy has its flaws. Especially in a country like the US where cults and magical thinking abound. But fascism is a lot worse unless you are one of the ones with a whip hand.