
Of course, the U.S. won in the Pacific, so there's that. But even there it was finally the impending threat of Soviet intervention that caused the Japanese to surrender, not the atom bombs that were dropped. Still, it was American forces that did all the brutal island hopping and fire bombing of civilian populations that brought Japan to that juncture -- though the extended, bordering-on-genocidal terror bombing of civilian populations also may not be the finest example of democracy at work....
What's insidious about this alternative to Western governance is that it promises prosperity at the expense of individual freedom, while dismissing democracy as ineffective.
It happens that Western governance, especially in the EU, is equally dismissive of democracy.
Everywhere the State has been captured by a cartel of almost identical and interchangeable of establishment parties that are whittling away our hard earned freedoms.
Truly, it is said that those who give up freedom for security end up with neither... I think in the coming centuries the late 20th and early 21st centuries will be remembered as a strange but short golden age when democracy actually thrived. In the coming centuries I fear today's Russia and China will seem benevolent compared to what awaits us....well...I think in the coming centuries the late 20th and early 21st centuries will be remembered as a strange but short golden age when democracy actually thrived. In the coming centuries I fear today's Russia and China will seem benevolent compared to what awaits us.
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