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Mead posted...

Um the spread of democracy has seen the decline of violence worldwide along with near elimination of hunger for most of the world

Which is more the result of free trade and open markets than it has anything to do with democracy. The greatest vehicle for prosperity and peace has been capitalism. No matter what kind of government you have, if your neighbors are your trading partners you have an incentive to not attack them. However, if you're not trading with them, it doesn't matter if you're a democracy because you're going to try to fuck with them -- which the US has historically done to its non-trading partners, including facilitating the overthrow of governments throughout South America to place governments more friendly to US businesses.

Keep in mind that the world's largest warring power has been the US, which is is one of the world's most notable democracies.

Mead posted...

If you really think things would be better with more monarchies, dictatorships, and communist governments, then fucking lol

And, excluding monarchies, you get worse versions of those kinds of governments when democracy fails in a region. Keep in mind that Syria, which nobody considers a functional nation at the moment, is a democracy and Bashar is its elected president. But I'll cut you some slack because you just become "woke" when Trump was elected president.
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