[quote=@Vilageidiotx]


I don't think failure should be used as proof that society should never attempt to improve or advance. You take a snapshot of democracy from the beginning of time until 1776 and you won't find a democracy that didn't fall on its face completely, but the system got worked out eventually (well, maybe). Something tells me that a period of 100 years is probably not a large enough sample size to make the determination you are making.
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When every Republic from the first up until the formation of the American Constitutional Republic was either for the make benefit of the aristocracy, fell apart under its own weight, or was conquered. 👌

When the failure of democracies elsewhere in the modern world to subscribe to European standards is overlooked because that's not democracy. 👌


Really, from what I heard from Venezuela democracy had already failed there. It's about time the government became honest about itself. Or perhaps it did, by national rules. Your government decided it was a good rule to [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_Venezuela#A_strengthened_and_recallable_presidency]dissolve your assembly[/url], after all. Though, why didn't you fire up a successful petition drive?