08-15-2016, 08:48 AM
(08-14-2016, 10:20 PM)Kinser79 Wrote: Is it possible for second rate dictators of third rate countries to implode of their own accord? Absolutely, and in cases where that happens the result is inevitably the replacement of one second rate dictator with a different second rate dictator. Some civilizations simply are not compatible with Western Democracy--probably because that is a product of Western Civilization.
I'd spin it another way. Authoritarian cultures have trouble competing with industrialized democracies. There is a slow turnover with some movement away from authoritarianism. Within a given culture and life time, the slow turnover looks an awful lot like no progress at all.
Still, how long an interval was it from Great Britain's parliament starting to struggle with their king to the end of the US Civil War? It takes a long time for a culture to throw off authoritarian rule, and even the US and UK should be considered works in progress. [Darth Vader Breathing] You do not understand the power of the Dark Side of values lock. [/Darth Vader Breathing] You're not going to see poof magic stampede of rainbow unicorns instant change to perfection. It is a long slow tedious process.
Have you ever studied history? Take notes on how long it takes a culture to transition from a classic Agricultural Age pattern to something vaguely modern and acceptable. Oh. Hmm. Has anyone ever transitioned to something acceptable? Nobody is really there yet?
Well, that does imply that it takes some time.
That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.