Personally, I don't think so. Politics discusses moral issues, and how to discuss and resolve those issues - a type of meta-ethics, maybe - is where conceptions of democracy live. — angslan
A system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives
This is an interesting line of thought, then. So democracy takes place in the moral climate of the country it is implemented in. This explains many things, such as segregation. So apart from seeing democracy as right or wrong, it is simply a vehicle to mirror the common view. — FreeEmotion
Democracy is a framework about how to have a debate — angslan
They just chug along, not having to deal with the competing sides — yatagarasu
Perhaps the homogeneity of the Chinese has made this possible, but I'm afraid it is quickly showing that China's system is the way to go. — yatagarasu
Choose your criteria with care. — Banno
You know what the CPC does with "competing sides", right? — Maw
This is a sad post on so many levels. — Posty McPostface
Oh, and according to the above index the world as a whole has become less not more democratic since 2006 when the index first reported. If capitalism has figured out it doesn't need democracy as much as it thought it did (after Singapore, China etc.) it may indeed simply die out. There are no guarantees. — Baden
So what is a possible solution to all this? How can we practically instill civil virtues within the population without creating a totalitarian state?
Actually, that chart shows precisely when China started it's economic reforms, which happened in 1978. Then it started (and succeeded) to throw away the socialist economic model and well, basically turned to market oriented fascism.Look at that. Another democracy left in the dust. : / — yatagarasu
Democracy is dying, then. But to paraphrase Mark Twain, reports of the birth of Democracy have been greatly exaggerated. — FreeEmotion
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