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The second quality is that Western democracy is formal and institutional; it is about the means of selecting governments and the procedures which regulate their practice. Western democracy passes no opinion about the results of government. To qualify as a democracy a society has to grant universal suffrage, hold secret elections and permit multiple parties to participate. It does not have to govern in the interests of the majority except that periodic elections may compel it to take those interests into account in order to gain re-election. It is not an infringement of Western democracy if a fascist government is elected.

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After the Second World War, a major demand of the Western allies when effecting peace treaties was that former enemy nations, Germany, Rumania, Hungary and Bulgaria, should hold ‘free’ elections. It was of little concern that an authoritarian government might be returned, that the old land-owners might retain their power or that fascists might regain their influence. The Western allies actually used some of the Nazis and their collaborators, whom they had agreed at Yalta to remove from influence, in their endeavour to establish formal democratic forms. In Greece after 1945 the British government left former fascist collaborators in power and crushed the antifascist resistance in order to restore Western democratic procedures. It was a rather cruel paradox.

German capitalists, including the industrial giants, Krupp and Thysson, which had financed the Nazi war and Jewish extermination machine, had their economic power restored through massive injections of American capital, thus ensuring the continued dominance of international capitalism; while a political edifice was constructed involving free elections and multiple parties with the participation of many who had exercised administrative and political power during the Nazi period.

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The most serious consequence of defining democracy in terms of procedures for making political choices has been that there is no belief in the West in the substance of democracy. What happens in between elections is of little concern to the Western democrats. Western democracy is an area of contending opinions with not only no distinction between good and evil opinions but with no feeling for good and evil. Anything and everything is acceptable so long as the procedures are abided by.

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In other parts of the world, in Latin America and Asia, the Western inspired political institutions have crumbled through the firing of a few guns, the capture of a radio station or a proclamation from an army barracks. A system which is so frail that it cannot survive economic crises, which has to be suspended in times of war, which has no resistance to physical force, can surely claim no moral superiority over other forms.

my first thought is always the wonderful and clever people I've known with dyslexia. my typos are the result of a lack of physical coordination, theirs are not. do you know how infuriating it is to have an adult ask you for help fixing spelling mistakes and see the anxiety and shame they feel in that moment?

Jonah: "PARKERRR!!! I need a photo of the Spider-Creep for tomorrow's front page! I'm thinking... SPIDER-MAN NOW SPIDER-MA'AM! WALL-CRAWLER PRETENDS TO BE A WOMAN AS A PUBLICITY STUNT FOR CRAZY ANTICS!"

Robbie: "Jonah... you can't just assume that's the case. It's unethical AND libel."

Jonah: "You know what IS unethical, Robertson?!? That circus act of an arachnid menace doing this to spite me!!!!"

Petra: "Here you go, JJ! Fresh off the old camera as of this morning."

Petra: "...You know Jonah, I've gotten pretty close-up pictures of the web-head these last few weeks, and from experience I can almost CERTAINLY tell you her transition is the real deal."

Robbie: "...told you, man."

Jonah: "Urrrrgghhhhh, SCRATCH WHAT I SAID!! Change the headline: SPIDER-WOMAN STILL THE SAME SPIDER-MENACE! Now get out of here, my office is not a recreational lounge!"

Petra: "...you still haven't paid me for the pictures."

Jonah: "What? ...oh. FINE Parker, you drive a hard-bargain! Talk to my secretary for your check, tell her to give you a bonus on my part so you can buy some HRT or whatever it is you kids use these days. If there's one thing J. Jonah Jameson does well, it's treating his employees with dignity and respect!!"