Comments by "" (@TheDavidlloydjones) on "Three big reasons war is going away" video.

  1. "willzyx 1 year ago Like where?" Like starting in 1862, when the map of the USA is incorrect in two ways: the area is incorrectly drawn and it shows the USA as democratic. The best claim you could make might be that the US attempted democracy from 1965, the Civil rights Act, through 2003 when the Supreme Court gave free speech to money instead of people. 'Course 38 years ain't bad. Only about a third of the human race -- Europe, the British Commonwealth, Japan, Taiwan and the Tigers, and sporadic bits and pieces in Latin America and Africa -- have done better.
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  2. Calling the US a democracy in 1862 is off by about 103 years -- or by three if we want to be charitable. At our nicest we can say that the US started to think about democracy with the 13th and 14th Amendments, after the Civil War. This made it into a theoretical, property-based, males-only, and quite limited democracy. The serious attempt to put a government by male and female adults of all "races," i.e. colours, starts with the later civil rights acts, e.g. the LBJ 1965 one. This is still under constant attack by Republicans in several states, and is not very well implemented anywhere. All the American democracies, the United States of America and its South American fellow-republics, are very recent works in progress. About a third of the human race, Europe the British Commonwealth, Taiwan, Japan, and the Tigers, can claim to be functioning, stable, and reasonably achieved democracies.
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