Thread: UK more nostalgic for empire than others

Originally Posted by cyrille

#2 Switzerland 171

Taking in account the fact that the voting rights of women on the national level in Switzerland started just 50 years ago, and in some cantons only 30 years ago (and that only after federal order)...

...the figures seems to be very believable..

Until 5 decades ago black children were not allowed to travel to school in the same bus as white children but that was comfortably forgotten by those making the lists.

^That has nothing to do with the real "democracy"...
(I mean, that fact does not speak against "democracy")

Originally Posted by lom

Until 5 decades ago black children were not allowed to travel to school in the same bus as white children but that was comfortably forgotten by those making the lists.

Spot on.

There are plenty still alive today that were born into a 'democracy' where they didn't even have the same rights as others.

If we use the term 'universal suffrage' the list would look very different

Originally Posted by lom

Until 5 decades ago black children were not allowed to travel to school in the same bus as white children but that was comfortably forgotten by those making the lists.

Things tend to move fast once standing principles are successfully challenged; isn't that how societies progress?

whoopsie- dooped

I would certainly not try to sell Colonialism to you based on it's Democratic credentials. Merely it's legacy, in the case of the Brits- but it has also resulted in the two largest democracies in the world today.

Originally Posted by sabang

but it has also resulted in the two largest democracies in the world today.

Trying to assume which ones the two might be...

After googling, I have found one:

The Best Democracy Money Can Buy
https://www.amazon.com/Best-Democrac.../dp/0452285674

Originally Posted by sabang

I would certainly not try to sell Colonialism to you based on it's Democratic credentials. Merely it's legacy, in the case of the Brits- but it has also resulted in the two largest democracies in the world today.

A Caste system and a Corporate Fascist one ?

Do you equal a vote every four years to democrazy ?

No, democracy is flawed like every other system. As a famous Brit once said, it is the worst political system ever apart from every other one ever tried. About the only democratic system that gets a real pass mark from me is Switzerland actually.

But we don't have much in the way of competition do we? Democratic Republic of Nth Korea? Thailand (masquerading as a democracy but very clearly not)? China?

Originally Posted by sabang

As a famous Brit once said

Yup, the old fat-arse drunk himself, Churchill: "Democracy is the worst form of government, except all the others"

Originally Posted by panama hat

Yup, the old fat-arse drunk himself, Churchill: "Democracy is the worst form of government, except all the others"

Just two minor points. He didn’t turn his politics into a fitness video, and he was a better political analyst than Jane Fonda.

. . . . you bastard! I've now got an mental image of Winston in tights that I cannot unsee!!!!!