Russia and Ukraine

[Leonardo17]

1) Not the definition. I can quote Thomas Jefferson on that. I think you can read his book called “The Political Writings of Thomas Jefferson” https://www.amazon.com/Political-Writing...B00CNJRBWQ
 
Another must read is Rousseau’s “The social contract”
 
These are the Manifest and the “Capital” of republican ideology.
 
The philosophical approach is that man is an essentially good being that is capable of reasoning and that the ordinary (even uneducated man) is capable of making good decisions (even in a court trial) an deliver that to the rest of society.
 
2) Does that happen in Greece for instance?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Tiana...d_massacre
 
The organs of young protesters are said to have been used for the medical needs of senior party members.
 
Your mistake is this: It’s good to be critical of your government. But you are supposed to push it forward. I don’t really believe that you would like to see your country go back to what it was before 1776. I don’t believe you sincerely want that.
 
3) Don’t get me wrong. No one is saying that any country is perfect. Just look at France and their war on Algeria in the 60's or at the French-English military intervention against Egypt under Nasser in 1956. That’s just history. The question is where you want to stand during this lowing of history. I am not even saying you have to pick a side. I am only saying that if you are picking a side you have to see clearly what side it is you have decided to be a part of.

Democracy is based on the notion that a million people are smarter than one person. That doesn’t sound right.

Autocracy is based on the notion that one person is smarter than a million people. That doesn’t sound right, either.

Boru

My idea is that the division of power is good in order to avoid the corrupting effect of political power.
 
+ T.J. says that you can easily bribe a judge to win a court case. Bribing a Jury of 6-12 is harder. Bribing a whole country during the elections, brainwashing them etc. (as it has been done by fascists) is even more difficult than that.
 
So as long as you are not an Old-Kingdom Egyptian who is lucky enough to be ruled by the beloved son and daughter of Horus, you have to stick with that as far a I see it.
 
Why?
 
Ex: They just murdered the man who invented the sputnik V vaccine. And especially in the last 10 years this is not the first nor the last death of some well-known individual under completely unclear circumstances.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/russian-covid...29094.html