Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: The joy of Democracy Date: 19 Oct 2024 18:59:25 GMT Lines: 19 Message-ID: References: <20241014080601.00007478@gmail.com> <38fb5a91-5d00-be42-4bfe-2a05232a82c1@example.net> <82bcedf2-be4a-a2da-3f77-fbbed147ef30@example.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net uYeeTD6Luz8AiYVFKzDjswkWsM2r9DhfVl5mHpI5ldZLZd10Wj Cancel-Lock: sha1:2r88PGlQ5b5NBnZr4egZR8bQm1A= sha256:L1RRf0YDe0b9lKkrvn2JOpwZkcW1xrPWXgJqJ81SaU4= User-Agent: Pan/0.149 (Bellevue; 4c157ba) Bytes: 2538 On Sat, 19 Oct 2024 17:08:06 -0000 (UTC), Lars Poulsen wrote: > On 2024-10-19, rbowman 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.