User: Mad Martian

Re:RMS, and budding democracies

On: RMS Weighs In On BitKeeper

Democracy requires an informed citizenry, it requires literacy, it requires a stable social climate, it requires reasonable expectations of the citizens that their vote might matter, and it requires them to have their immediate concerns taken care of, like stable income and work, safe from government persecution, safe from crime.

But I don't understand: the USA has democracy but it doesn't have any of those other things!