Faramir
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Thanks for clarifying the illusion comment. if I understand you correctly, you mean not that there are no democracies - but rather, real choice within democracy is an illusion? Democracy sells itself as providing discrete choices, but really there is only one choice?
As to the relative succes of democracy, sure, some nations retreat from democracy, but on a global level, democracy has been the only net gainer.
Aristcracy and monarchy have gone from being common forms of government to extinct.
The collecticvist experiment of the 20th centurt (fascist and communist states) reached a high water mark in the middle fo the century and are nearly all gone. The one significant state left is China, which has transitioned away from collectivism (yayy China!).
Liberal democracies with universal suffrage have gone from zero percent to 6#% of the world's nations in the last 105 years (electoral democracies).
Look at the map of democracies. I would say that if one political system has gone from none to the majority market share, that system is succesful.
BTW, who said anything about democracy offering lots of values choices?
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