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>Western democracy is clearly weak when it comes to dealing with crisis of any kind.

Sounds like a feature to me. They're also "rather effective" at setting up reeducation camps in xijiang to deal with the "crisis" of "extremism and terrorism by Uygurs"[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinjiang_internment_camps



American democracy is just as capable, see Japanese internment, Guantanamo Bay, the Tuskegee experiment, warrantless wiretapping, etc.


It was a democracy which condemned Socrates to death.




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