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Originally Posted by kirakira
Yes yes, but still better than a few filthy rich, majority well to do and a few disadvantaged than EVERYONE being dirt poor.
Put down the now very tired western propaganda message will you. Democracy after education and money thanks. Democracy is the result of economic prosperity, not the other way round, geez. Look at those African countries, Zimbabwe anyone? Fine examples of democracy at work. Has anyone got GDP figures for Iraq? What do you think those conflicts are all about? A majority of them are economic.
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Ooooh... touched a nerve have I? Why would you become so defensive?
First of all.. I never suggested any logical progression of the things I listed.
Second of all... The question was how would you stop all wars and my answer was Democracy
as well as the other things I mentioned.
Third... I never said that economic prosperity was the result of democracy.. but you could hardly make a case for it the other way around. Look at Singapore? Saudi Arabia? Not to mention countries that were poor originally but achieved prosperity after or during Democracy (Japan? Taiwan?, South Korea?) refutes your argument.
Fourth... the idea that a political system is RESPONSIBLE for economic woes is ridiculuous, logically unfounded, and ignores the myriad of reasons as to why a state may become a failed one.