A Trump victory in November is more plausible now because it has an immediate precedent in a developed democracy ready to trash the status quo for the high-risk unknown.
In addition, some of the conditions that were essential to the successful functioning of market economies also contributed to the development of democracy: ready access to reliable information, relatively high levels of education, ease of personal movement, and the rule of law.
"Only then can Labour complete the work it began in 1997 to make Britain a truly modern democracy ready for the changes of the 21st century". The paper goes on to call for a referendum on the euro once the five economic tests set down by the chancellor, Gordon Brown, have been met.
Ed Miliband's first seven weeks have seen him doing better than his foes predicted, but he continues to cut a lonely figure: apparently set on a promising kind of modernised social democracy, readying himself for a blank-page policy review, and strafed by hostile fire.
By so doing, he is forced to admit that he does not think that Egyptians are capable of democracy or ready for it.
The leaders of the seven major industralized democracies are ready to endorse a broad "statement of will" for resisting terrorism, Prime Minister Bettino Craxi of Italy said today after a private meeting with President Reagan.
I'm awed by the courage I see, and it's condescending and foolish to suggest that people dying for democracy aren't ready for it.
If no help is forthcoming, there is every chance that the ensuing economic chaos, in the wake of a likely rouble crash, will not only bring down the current government but may even bring down Russia's rough-and-ready democracy.This is no idle fear (see article).
"Today I salute President Kostunica," he said, "and I confirm that sanctions will be lifted with the return of democracy". Sealing the ready approval with which the new leader of Yugoslavia is being welcomed by a world weary of Mr. Milosevic's brutality, Mr. Chirac also invited Mr. Kostunica to attend a European Union summit meeting late next week in Biarritz, France.
Right now, democracy is not ready to respond to poetry.
He understood that in order for poetry to alter the social order, democracy must be ready to respond to poetry.
