The current changes in the middle east

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America didn't teach anybody about "real democracy".

How could we? With Florida in 2000 as an example it is clear we are merely living in a plutokleptocracy ( rule by rich thieves.)

"Democracy" is a slogan. The republicunts are still trying to figure out ways to suppress democratic voters for the benefit of their rich, cocksucking, leash holders.

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Here you go, Atlas. From Today's News.

"Democracy" African-style!

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/22/world/...=5043&_r=0

Every five years or so, this stable and typically peaceful country, an oasis of development in a very poor and turbulent region, suffers a frightening transformation in which age-old grievances get stirred up, ethnically based militias are mobilized and neighbors start killing neighbors. The reason is elections, and another huge one — one of the most important in this country’s history and definitely the most complicated — is barreling this way.

“This election brings out the worst in us,” read a column last week in The Daily Nation, Kenya’s biggest newspaper. “All the tribal prejudice, all ancient grudges and feuds, all real and imagined slights, all dislikes and hatreds, everything is out walking the streets like hordes of thirsty undeads looking for innocents to devour.”