America's got to end its deadly devotion to democracy - Yahoo! News - 0 views
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"Be nice to the Americans or they'll punish you with democracy."
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Evidence shows that attempts to democratize the developed world have made internal tensions much worse.
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The voter with a stable job and a secure place to live is a signatory to the social contract understood by Jean Jacques Rousseau, whose political philosophy underlay the French Revolution.
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why has a much more impatient, poorly planned approach been taken to the infinitely more complex problems of Africa and the Middle East?
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Development, or teaching people democracy, can look suspiciously like neo-colonialism. There's a fine line between husbandry and hegemony – those at the sharp end cannot always tell the difference. What is clear, however, is that ballots by themselves are not a panacea. Unless the job is done well, it should not be done at all.