01-25-2018, 09:13 PM
(01-25-2018, 09:00 PM)fredtoast Wrote: Nope. Ekecting a leader does not mean there is no threat to democracy
From the article you still have not read.
Like Hugo Chávez in Venezuela, elected leaders have subverted democratic institutions in Georgia, Hungary, Nicaragua, Peru, the Philippines, Poland, Russia, Sri Lanka, Turkey and Ukraine.
I read the article and saw the part you keep quoting; hell you even quit quoting before the author does not compare us to those countries.
WTS, I acknowledge that you do not consider free elections the hallmark of a democracy , I just happen to disagree with your assertion.