On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 7:28 PM, Jarold McWilliams <[email protected]>wrote:
> A democracy is a horrible form of government. > Sad but true. > Dictatorships are much better, and you don't have people making decisions > based on irrational fear and emotions. > Dictatorships are better governments, until they're not. And they have a bad habit of being overthrown in violent revolutions and coups. If I were to place a long bet on the stability of a country, I would go with the helter-skelter of a democracy over the forced calm of an unrepresentative dictatorship. As Churchill once remarked, "it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time." Nonetheless, I suspect the democracies of the world are going to have to get their acts together and impose a little authoritarian discipline upon themselves in order to survive in the emerging global order. Here's to hoping that cold fusion will throw a complete wrench in the works and wreak delightful havoc. Eric
