Comment

CNN's Dana Loesch Equates Mandatory Trans-Vaginal Ultrasound to Having Sex

581
Nyet2/18/2012 7:28:58 am PST

re: #577 Obdicut

Oh, I spoke unclearly. I’m kind of a radical— I don’t think undemocratic states are valid. How this belief could actually tie into a working foreign policy I have no clue.

There is no some international super-body that decides what states are democratic, what are pseudo-democratic, etc. Every pseudo-democratic state sees itself as democratic, and is thus able to use the “what’s good for the goose” argument to use or misuse measures of democratic states. Which is why democratic and pseudo-democratic states have to play by largely the same rules - unless democratic states are willing to label the pseudo-democratic states as such and, most importantly, act on this.

(I’m leaving the question of continuum aside - democracy is not an on/off state.)