04-23-2020, 07:26 AM
Blazkovitz,
That is an easy answer. Russia, you see, has always been under threat from other tribes and nations for so long that they never actually had time to, how shall we say, relax and develop more liberal institutions. First the Mongols, then the Poles, the French, the Germans, they have always been under siege and attacked. They never have had a really long period of domestic peace hence the more hesitant attitudes to Democracy. There has always been the need for a strong king so to say to keep the country going. It is a pattern to be sure.
However Democracy itself does not work in the long run and always becomes corrupt and collapses eventually. The UK never has suffered this fate because of the strong institution known as the Royal Family which always keeps things in check.
But in European countries? Especially where Monarchs powers are more restricted? Or Republics? They always fall into the trap of Caesarism eventually. We are about to enter the next wave of Caesarism in Europe starting in this decade. However I don't think it'll be Hitler Caesarism this time around but more the Salazar model.
As for the countries you mentioned, all I can say is Botswana is a weird case but things are peaceful there. Bolivia is going down the socialist road and I think could become a dictatorship eventually. Japanese democracy is the most weirdest form of government I have ever seen. It never left the early 20th century and instead remains committed to replacing one prime minister after another in some weird one party state system. Only two prime minister's have served for at least a decade which is a huge rarity in Japanese politics.
I think that when American influence does decline there, a more formalised one party system will start to take root there. Already the signs are starting to show with the present government taking a more right wing approach. Japanese, like the Russians, don't like change.
That is an easy answer. Russia, you see, has always been under threat from other tribes and nations for so long that they never actually had time to, how shall we say, relax and develop more liberal institutions. First the Mongols, then the Poles, the French, the Germans, they have always been under siege and attacked. They never have had a really long period of domestic peace hence the more hesitant attitudes to Democracy. There has always been the need for a strong king so to say to keep the country going. It is a pattern to be sure.
However Democracy itself does not work in the long run and always becomes corrupt and collapses eventually. The UK never has suffered this fate because of the strong institution known as the Royal Family which always keeps things in check.
But in European countries? Especially where Monarchs powers are more restricted? Or Republics? They always fall into the trap of Caesarism eventually. We are about to enter the next wave of Caesarism in Europe starting in this decade. However I don't think it'll be Hitler Caesarism this time around but more the Salazar model.
As for the countries you mentioned, all I can say is Botswana is a weird case but things are peaceful there. Bolivia is going down the socialist road and I think could become a dictatorship eventually. Japanese democracy is the most weirdest form of government I have ever seen. It never left the early 20th century and instead remains committed to replacing one prime minister after another in some weird one party state system. Only two prime minister's have served for at least a decade which is a huge rarity in Japanese politics.
I think that when American influence does decline there, a more formalised one party system will start to take root there. Already the signs are starting to show with the present government taking a more right wing approach. Japanese, like the Russians, don't like change.