GryphonNumber7 comments on How come the American Revolution didn't end up being a series of coups, purges and dictatorships? Like the French Revolution, or almost any other Revolution did?

Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others that have been tried over the course of human history, or whatever it is that Churchill said.

That might be true, if what we had in any of the so-called "democratic" countries was actual democracy. It isn't; nowhere close. It is a re-implementation of the Principate system that Augustus Caesar implemented in Rome. Non-democratic, but with enough of the external facade left to keep people from complaining.

The Principate (euphemistically referred to as "democracy") isn't a genuinely good system. It's just that it is good enough to allow basic survival on a day to day basis. For as long as 95% of humanity are determined to be servile, cowardly, and mindlessly stupid, however, then yes, it probably is the best that we are going to be able to manage; but I don't have any illusions about the idea that it is the best of all possible worlds.

The problem these days, is that we make so many implicit assumptions. We assume that "democracy," in subjugation to the United Nations is the best and only possible system. Heaven forbid that the Egyptians themselves might actually want something else.

The other thing that I'm absolutely sick of to the back teeth where things like the Arab Spring are concerned, is that they are always, without exception, instigated and run by conspiracies of white, photogenic, Marxist, Western 25 year olds, and not by anyone who actually lives in the country. I know about the April Fourth movement in Egypt, and I also know about Adbusters in the case of Occupy. There's a term for that; it's called astroturf.

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