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Maybe, or maybe not.. I really doubt somehow that people want to be rulered by an tyrant or a few of them anymore. The world have changed a lot since the 1930s.. Who in many cases was the time when Dictators was doing much harm to Europe.. In most Central and Eastern European country the idea of democracy, freedom of speech and such, who is something that most people would fight to preserve in Europe was still in its infancy. And at the look at it, it looked grim, really grim in Europe.. From Spain to Soviet dictators seen to be the norm.. A few country, like Tsjekkoslovakia, France, Great Britain, Sweden, Denmark Norway and Finland (nominally at least) was Democratic. The others was either authoritarian, or outright dictatorship.. Germany was ruled by the Nazis.. Italy by the Fascist. and both was aggressive in their ideology.. But even the Fascist was not going that long in their fanaticism as Hitler and Germany... But they saddled on the wrong horse so to speak, and lost everything too...
After the war, who ended badly for the axis, Germany, Italy and Japan plus the others who under the war war "involved" in the axis movement they learned by hard lessons that War was not the best way to solve issues.. Today Japan and Germany is stable Democracy, even that both country do have their share of problems, that for sure. Italy is maybe not the perfect democracy, with corrupt politicians on every level, but Still a democracy of sorts.. If extreme regimes was to wake up in Europe I would point to Eastern Europe as a problem area.. Most of them have less than a decade of democracy in modern terms, and lack many of the deep roots that is been made in West for many, many decades.. I would point out Poland, Russia (specially Russia who's experience with democracy in the 1990s was less than stellar so to speak) Bulgaria, Romania and some other country as possible problem areas.. This country have no deep roots to democracy and have also a deep problem with corruption.. I Know Bulgaria well, have been there many times both before the Berlin wall was teaing down and after.. And I would say that they do have some problems that is not solved yet - 17 year after they formally was free from the eastern block ideology.. And for the record, Bulgaria together with Romania was not democracy between the war either, and was one of the country who was sending a lot of troops to the soviet front.. Specially Romania who was sending many troops to their death in Stalingrad in 1943... But that is maybe another tread wort again..
I really doubt that in the WEST Europe that dictatorship can be made for the suable future. Of course if everything goes down the grapper then everything is possible.. But I really believe that Democracy is here to stay. Even under dire circumcisions.. I am more afraid of what would happened in Eastern Europe in the future than in Western Europe.. Or for the sake of it, I am more afraid of what would became of US in the future.. Under Bush jr, you got very close to a dictatorship, and the same condition that was case in Nazi-Germany with Concentration camps and the lot.. But somehow I doubt that even THAT Administration was daring to go the all way, not this time around.. But what would happened if a new neo-conservative administration, with less respect for your Constitution, your Bill of Rights and less respect for the LAW came into power... That is some I fear more than if Bulgaria got a dictator for a decade.. Bulgaria are a poor country, who lack most of the power to be a military factor.. They might piss off Greek and Romania, but that is almost the most they can do.. And both Bulgaria, Romania and Greek are part of both EU and NATO, so I guess that it Will be more than difficult to be dictators there than before... Even that I doubt that Bulgaria and Romania should be member of EU and NATO for another decade or two... But that is just me then.. And nobody have to my knowledge been expelled from either NATO and EU yet..
But something I can agree with, is that this depression we have now, is no easy thing to fix, rather the opposite, for many it will be painfully, hard and horrible to survive.. But we will survive this, as our grandparents survived the Great Depression of the 1930s.. We even might learn some lessons to live within our means this time around.. And to make a far better future, with a more sharing of our wealth.. The last couple of centuries have been in the line of greed and exploiting of man.. Maybe this can learn most humans, to share more, and to let go of the pure greed that many believe in.. Maybe we got rid of the extreme ideology, like the neo-con ideology who I would say is a Cancer to humanity.. What Humanity need, is peace, and a future where we all can share little more than we do today.. Not more extremist.. I hope we one day can go back, and look at the past and say, this is what was the case in our history, but in our time we share more and are far less greedy than our ancestors was.. Maybe US would be in the lead of things again too?.. Hopefully we can work together and share more in the future than we have been doing the last couple or decades...
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