On Sat, 6 Sep 2003 lweiger at umich.edu wrote:
> Chris Doss replied:
>
> > Hardy har har. Stalin has a 40% popularity rating here.
>
> Which is why I qualified "democracies" with "non-fledgling" (perhaps it
> would've been clearer if I'd said "post-fledgling democracies").
>
> -- Luke
So, in other words, when people are well indoctrinated into a stable social system, they tend to consider it superior to alternatives. This is true of most human societies, democratic or otherwise.
Miles