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Comment by Teever

12 days ago

It's easier to fix a broken democracy than to turn an authoritarian state into a democratic one.

Authorian to democracy transition happens more often than democracies come back from severe backslides, which... is basically never. I struggle to think of an example.

China hasn’t threatened to annex my country.

  • I'm Canadian as well.

    Stop and think about this for a moment -- do you think that China doesn't spread authoritarianism across the globe because they don't want to or simply because they can't do it yet?

    • One is actively threatening, and one may threaten in the future.

      Also, I am Canadian, but I could also be Panamanian, or Danish. Maybe it would be different if I were Taiwanese or Vietnamese or Japanese, but, China is far away and playing nice, and America is close and not.

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