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From: rbowman <bowman@montana.com>
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: The joy of Democracy
Date: 19 Oct 2024 18:59:25 GMT
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On Sat, 19 Oct 2024 17:08:06 -0000 (UTC), Lars Poulsen wrote:

> On 2024-10-19, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
>> Scale is the real problem. A state like the US with over 300 million
>> people, half of which would like to see the other half hanging from
>> lamp poles,  is impossible without a highly coercive government.
> 
> Not the number of people - the divisiveness. Which may come from
> inequality, ethnicities or racism. Yugoslavia is the textbook example.
> Fell completely apart once the iron fist softened just a little bit.
> 
> But ... "it can't happen here!"

Yugoslavia was another one of those ill-advised creations after WWI. 
"We'll draw a line around these people that hate each other and call it a 
country."

Czechoslovakia worked out rather well. The Czech Republic and Slovakia get 
along much better after the divorce.