Or could it be that entrenched interests have learned that they can exercise
efficient government by special interests under the guise of democracy?  Dan K

Fred Welfare wrote:

> Insofar as we, the West, were forced to identify with the aggressor to defeat
> the Nazi's and Japs, we lost our sense of democracy.  But, events since the
> late 1950's,
> namely the rise of several social movements, embodying spontaneous democracy,
> and the fall of both the Soviet Union and the Berlin Wall (the reunification
> of Germany, and the possible unification of Europe) indicate that democracy
> is alive and well.
> The ongoing conflict between the current of modernity and the resistances
> from conservatives should not lead us to believe that right wing dictators
> predominate. But,
> it would auger well in our favor, that of democracy, if our military leaders
> would find a way to halt the rise of private armies!!!
>
> Fred W.