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    Uprising in Egypt Splitting the Conservatives in the US

    That is what I meant in the democracy thread, if the actual system had eroded then it doesnt matter who you vote for, if he dont run with the main mission to actually clean up the corruption. But as they say "power corrupts" so it will probably take a Jesus or mother teresa to do that and with...
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    Cheney said what? Mubarak a good friend, US ally

    Its the marketing that is the problem; we in the west keep saying that "democracy is best" at the same time we finance and install puppet dictators and call people terrorists if they elect anything else than what the west expects like Hamas. Decades of dictator financing has already made their...
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    Define 'democracy'.....

    Yes I understand that but the question is if the system has eroded? I mean if the politician you vote for is getting paid by someone to run errands for them that run contrary to the reason you voted for him/her, then the whole system is failing. Or lets say that one person has the financial...
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    Define 'democracy'.....

    The problem is that you cant get elected if you dont have corporate backing and there is no such thing as a democratic corporation.
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    Define 'democracy'.....

    But is it democratic?
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    Cheney said what? Mubarak a good friend, US ally

    Well in most "democratic" countries less than 20% of the population control the media, the economy and the elections so that wouldnt be such a big difference from a normal democracy. And there are other reasons behind the election victories of islamist parties than religion and these are far...
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    Cheney said what? Mubarak a good friend, US ally

    It would be interesting to see these puppet regimes fall and real democracy from the people take over as opposed to imperialist invasions and corrupt dictators.
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