Last week I introduced a new idea, that democracy only functions in a nation that has industrial exports. Before we further examine that idea, with empirical data in coming blogs, I want to point out that in the past decade we have had history's first proof that democracy, per se, doesn't always work.
Proof:
Palestine, Lebanon and Venezuela. In Palestine and Lebanon an armed
force was allowed to run for office and participate in the government.
Disaster in both cases. In Venezuela we have the most classic case where a tyrant
was elected and proceeded to abolish democracy just as in the short
lived case of Post WWI Germany.
We have seen a small scale case of a tyrant eliminating democracy in Nicaragua in the 1980s and it looks like the same tyrant is back, by election again.
We have all lived to see democracy fail to prevent tyranny and misery.