Democratic Or Not.

-'Democracy is coming to the USA'. Leonard Cohen. One social sciences class I taught did not want government; they were already disillusioned with authority; they wanted anarchy, a free state of individuals living withoutlaws. It seemed they were trying to teach me something. I listened to their arguments, which were radical but persuasive and they spoke from the heart. However, I kept voting every three years, and once I knocked on doors forLabour. At least in a democracy, the people elect leaders unlike North Korea where Kim Jong Un-is an autocrat. He succeeded his relatives Kim Dae Jung and Kim Jong Il. Nevertheless by the new millennium 120 countries were democratic. The American people directly elect the Congress and President, voting for individuals not parties, unlike my country's mish-mash MMP. France has a similar Constitution to America's; It is faithful to the 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen. The Declaration is really about people anywhere anytime: equality as citizens, free and fair elections, free speech and equal distribution of wealth and property to all citizens. The world owes these natural rights to the original democrat Pericles of Athens. -27/28 January 2020.