There is always, of course, a limit in a democracy as to what is politically possible, so you have to respect that limit. But in my experience, governments tend to be too timid.
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I think our democracy has it exactly right: two terms, eight years. It's enough. Because it's important to have one foot in reality when you have access to this kind of power.
So I think one can say on empirical grounds - not because of some philosophical principle - that you can't have democracy unless you have a market economy.
Democracy, like any non-coercive relationship, rests on a shared understanding of limits.
I have no idea if some societies, anthropologically speaking, aren't really suited for democracy. I don't think that's true.
Democracy may mean something more than a theoretically absolute popular government, but it assuredly cannot mean anything less.
Democracy, despite its limitations, is in the end the only way to ensure that policies do not simply benefit the privileged few.
Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.
As a general rule, governments are unlimited in their powers. All free governments, perhaps all other governments, are entitled in some shape or other to make laws and to repeal or amend them.
We believe democracy cannot be imposed from outside in any society. Democracy is the expression of a sovereign people.
For Russia, there is not and there may not be another political option but democracy. However, Russian democracy is... not at all the realization of standards imposed on us from outside.
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