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One obvious implication of modern economic history is that it's quite hard to transition to democracy before you've established secure private property rights.
A democracy could be upheld peacefully.
We in the West, we preach the values, the golden light of democracy, that we are the shining example of how it's done.
But instead of the unwillingness of the candidates to allow the system to proceed and the people to decide, Ghana honored democracy and its people.
I mean, at the absolute time for the absolute need of democracy, they did not abuse their power.
The belief in true democracy and in the people runs deep, proving that the African is capable of governing himself.
Now the uphill battle for Ghana and for Africa is not over, but I have proof that the other side of democracy exists, and that we must not take it for granted.
Now I have learned that my place is not just in the West or in Africa, and I'm still searching for my identity, but I saw Ghana create democracy better.
Or in the case of double agents and traitors, like Robert Hanssen or Aldrich Ames, lies can betray our country, they can compromise our security, they can undermine democracy, they can cause the deaths of those that defend us.
Democracy, citizenship, how you should measure your land, what you should do if you're arrested, what you should do if your animal is sick.
So what I'm going to do is, every now and again, I will make this gesture, and in a moment of PowerPoint democracy, you can imagine what you'd like to see.
Because a functioning democracy requires that the public be well-educated and well-informed.
You will never change your society towards democracy, or, you know, the economy, if you sit down and click.
Will these revolutions be pushed through the transitions and democracy or be overtaken by the military or extremists of all kinds?
If you look at the last 35 years and different social transitions, from dictatorship to democracy, you will see that, out of 67 different cases, in 50 of these cases it was nonviolent struggle which was the key power.
No, but the issue of city building in democracy is interesting because it creates chaos, right?
How can we escape [having] a double-standard, if we at the same time preach democracy and at the same time don't want to deal with the groups that are representative?
And if we cannot demonstrate to these groups that if you move towards democracy, if you move towards taking part in civilized and normal standards among states, there are some rewards on the other side.
We do this in a legitimized way only after our democracy has asked us to do so.
That answer is, of course, democracy.
If we take a quick look at the modern history of democracy, it goes something like this.
And the graph does this, the important point of which, is this extraordinary increase over time, which is why the 20th century has been called the century of democracy's triumph, and why, as Francis Fukuyama said in 1989, some believe that we have reached the end of history, that the question of how to live together has been answered, and that answer is liberal democracy.
The first question is: Who thinks living in a democracy is a good thing?
Who likes democracy?
But my point is, if liberal democracy is the end of history, then there's a massive paradox or contradiction here.
Well, the first question is about the ideal of democracy, and all these qualities are very appealing.
One is to give up on democracy; it doesn't work.
Very interestingly, random selection was a key part of how democracy was done in ancient Athens.
How could we fix our broken system and remake democracy for the 21st century?
We ostensibly live in a democracy where we should have some say in what happens in the world.
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