Wasn't it Churchill who said "Democracy is the worst form of government in the world. Except for all

[captain queeg]

the others”? We certainly are flawed but it seems to be the best option. Rethugs have obviously decided they do not believe in democracy.

[elleng]

1. Winston Churchill once said that:

“democracy is the worst form of government – except for all the others that have been tried.” His cynicism was perhaps justified after the British people voted him out from his position as Prime Minister within months of winning the Second World War.

[Hortensis]

2. Kazakhstan's autocracy has ordered shoot-to-kill to end the protests there.

Kazakhstan's considered a successful autocracy, ruled for 30 years by one man, without collapsing into a sequence of revolutions and failed states. No doubt one of the alternatives Churchill was thinking of.

Btw, perhaps of particular interest to social media dwellers, the government shut down the internet to control the populace. It's now restoring partially for a limited time in parts of the country, to allow people in trouble to contact relatives, get money from banks, etc. This has been done in many nations whose citizens can't express their extreme displeasure through the polls.

In the U.S. the president has the authority to suspend both wire and wireless communications by proclamation of a state of peril or disaster or national emergency -- without advance notice to congress. To individual websites or whole regions. This "kill switch" power by the president hasn't been eliminated because of the extreme danger of foreign cyberattack. But even tRump didn't play with this power. Yet.

Yeah, imo too, democracy good.