Junto - Has Democracy Failed?

​Small gatherings, focused on “intellectual” discussions of the hot button issues of the day

​Be prepared to listen, share, have your ideas challenged.

​no wallflowers allowed.

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​Topic for today is:

​Has Democracy Failed? Does the rise of China and relative decline of the West call into question the foundation of Western government?

​"the end of history as such... the universalization of western liberal democracy as the final form of human government." Fukuyama

​"Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme form of liberty." Plato

​"Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others." Churchill