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The flaw is inherent in the designThe flaw is inherent in the designPosted Jun 28, 2009 20:19 UTC (Sun) by job (subscriber, #670)In reply to: The flaw is inherent in the design by drag Parent article: Digg, Dug, Buried: How Linux news disappears (ComputerWorld)
Thats why the USA (with the longest lasting democracy so far) I hope you are joking. How long have you even had equal rights and votes for all in the US? It wasn't even early by international standards. But democracy in the western sense is a fairly recent invention. It took even longer for all to get the chance for education etc. to actually make use of it. If all that is required is that some people get to vote, democracy in many countries predate even the founding of USA by at least a couple of hundred years. A modern democracy also requires that more than a few owners control media (fail), that media is not censored (fail) and that the juridical system works with medieval measures such as capital punishment (if the US was a European state this alone would be considered too undemocratic to join the EU). There are many democratic predictor values that can be used in the political sciences. How different nation states scores at different periods in history makes for some interesting reading.
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