10-26-2020, 07:48 PM
(10-26-2020, 10:37 AM)John J. Xenakis Wrote: In the meantime, analysts are pointing out that the same surge is not occurring in the Asian countries -- China, Taiwan, or South Korea. This continues to be a subject of much debate about the relative advantages and disadvantages of Western democracies versus Chinese dictatorships.
Not just Chinese dictatorship, but any autocracy. They can easily mandate precautions, where many democracies have populations which do not take them as seriously. In many turnings you might call ignoring the government freedom and celebrate the difference from autocracies, but there is something to be said for the crisis attitude of strong effective government focusing on the problem and people willingly sacrificing for the common good. The US at least is slow in shifting from unraveling selfishness to the crisis mind set.
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.
