Democracy can't work here

P.A.P. brings up interesting anti-democracy arguments.

"In discussions about the promotion of democracy in those parts of the world where it hasn’t been (firmly) established yet, the sceptical side of the argument usually advances either or both of the following positions:

Democracy is a political form typical of the West and undesirable or impossible elsewhere.
Democracy is a political concept which is defined in different ways according to the culture in which it is applied. When promoting democratic government in certain places, we are in fact promoting standard Western democracy when we should in fact be promoting something quite different."

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