Supposed good governments such as democracies do loads of horrible things, supposed bad ones as dictatorships sometimes happen to do very good things. An educated, aware, with a high sense of what really civilization is, citizenship is what makes a government a good government.
USA government was a good one denying afro-americans basic rights for so long? Even if it was supposed to be a democracy? A massive movement of citizens did change governments' attitude and this is why I think democracy means nothing without a motivated citizenship.
Otherwise, democracy is just a name.
I am not keen to forgive a democracy's mistake, condemning a dictatorship's one. Mistakes are mistakes, always. And just because they don't involve the majority of people they can't be called "minor errors" or "travel incidents".
A good citizenship, that keeps itself informed and watches over its government, is what makes mistakes fewer and less disruptive.
<font color="#a62a2a" size="1">[ March 31, 2006 08:05 AM: Message edited by: 3peanuts ]</font>
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