Postby Lamprecht » 3 months 3 weeks ago (Thu Oct 01, 2020 11:31 am)
Yes there are exceptions and that is what they are, exceptions. Tanzania is an example mentioned in that thread above, a study was cited explaining how they managed to achieve it. There are people that are lean and appear healthy but claim to eat nothing but pizza and coca cola or big macs. Imagine a doctor pointng to these examples and telling an obese/diabetic patient that they should follow this diet strategy because some people can do it and manage to not gain weight.
Laws were passed in Tanzania to ban political parties directly appealing to ethnic or religious groups. I guess a real, functional democracy has to ban specific parties or ideas. In the west, for some reason, democracy is equated with freedom with a sort of religious zeal.
We are told Israel is our "greatest ally" because "they are the only democracy in the region."
Why does that matter? The US military has gone to war and dropped bombs and missiles, killing millions of women and children in order to "make the world safe for democracy."
And this was all done with the same level of religious fervor experienced by the people burning heretics or ritually sacrificing people to change the weather hundreds of years ago. But the death tolls here do not even compare.
"There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments, and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance -- that principle is contempt prior to investigation." — Herbert Spencer
