At 07:48 19-7-01 -0400, John Giorgis wrote:
>At 11:47 AM 7/19/01 +0200 Baardwijk, J. van DTO/SLBD/BGM/SVM/SGM wrote:
> >Those examples you gave could happen in a dictatorship, not in a democracy.
> >You see, Kevin, that's why democracy is such a marvelous thing: if a
> >government would try something like you described, they would be punished
> >for it in the next election. So, crazy things like you mentioned just won't
> >happen in a democracy.
>
>I find it amazing that you can forget the results of a certain election in
>Germany back in the day.
<sigh>
John, the fact that *one* democratically elected leader became a psychopath
dictator, doesn't mean that *all* elected leaders are likely to become
psychopath dictators.
Besides, we all know what happened back then. Do you really believe we
would just let such atrocities happen again? When a democratically elected
leader turns into a second Hitler, do you really think the international
community wouldn't do anything about it?
Jeroen
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