It was the British wartime bulldog Winston Churchill who quipped that democracy is the worst form of government except for all those others that have been tried.
Given that the West is still trying to market the idea to countries that have great trouble trying, or like China are not trying at all, it is strange that the leaders of the world's most powerful democracies have seemed of late to be so eager to limit it in the countries where it was invented and nurtured. In Greece, where the democratic idea was first tried, and Italy, where the Roman Republic flourished before being corrupted into the Roman Empire, prime ministers originally approved by the electors have been forced out and replaced by those approved by the finance markets.
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