Do democracies sustain attacks from dictatorships because of this possible vulnerability ?

  • GreyShuck
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    5 months ago

    This was a criticism that the Nazis used against liberal democracies. They saw this as a fatal weakness and used it as a justification for keeping in power themselves, once they had achieved it.

    Various dictators have said much the same as well.

    However, looking at the track record of democracies vs dictatorships or single party states, I think that the data will show that pluralist democracies typically last longer.