Having never experienced any of them, they cannot tell the difference. Americans are very, very fortunate to live in a country that has always been a democracy. Most countries have changed their style of government as a pendulum swings back and forth. Our democracy is flawed, certainly; any system of government involving humans will be flawed. However, look at Russia. Because the Russian people have truly never been free (with the exception of a few months in 1917 and after 1991), the concept of democracy is very difficult to implement.

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