Of all the systems of governance, democracy has always been the one which most respects and enables its peoples and the least likely to devolve into autocracy. There is a reason that France and the USA, for all their flaws, have some of the oldest constitutions still in use on earth, for example.
Germany voted in the guy with the famous mustache and Russia is on paper democratic too. Not to mention several “democratic” countries in Africa. Just having it as a system is not enough.
Russia isn’t shit on paper, they’ve got a supreme leader with no term limits whose opponents keep becoming reluctant porn stars or dying in mysterious ways.
Fun fact about the end of the Weimar Republic, for three consecutive elections the left and the communist parties failed to form a coalition even with the majority of seats leading to on the fourth election the Nazis sweeping the right and becoming the majority they needed to take complete control. Sound familiar? A division among leftists caused by external forces leading into Fascism?
You forget that people can democratically vote themselves into an autocracy. This was already described in ancient Greece as anacyclosis.
Of all the systems of governance, democracy has always been the one which most respects and enables its peoples and the least likely to devolve into autocracy. There is a reason that France and the USA, for all their flaws, have some of the oldest constitutions still in use on earth, for example.
Germany voted in the guy with the famous mustache and Russia is on paper democratic too. Not to mention several “democratic” countries in Africa. Just having it as a system is not enough.
Russia isn’t shit on paper, they’ve got a supreme leader with no term limits whose opponents keep becoming reluctant porn stars or dying in mysterious ways.
Fun fact about the end of the Weimar Republic, for three consecutive elections the left and the communist parties failed to form a coalition even with the majority of seats leading to on the fourth election the Nazis sweeping the right and becoming the majority they needed to take complete control. Sound familiar? A division among leftists caused by external forces leading into Fascism?