No country in the world has been successful at it; Canada began to crumble after Harper was elected…

We invest in democracy not just by “educating” people — but by enlightening them. That is harder work. Only Europe and Canada have been successful at it, and even then, only incompletely. To enlighten a populace is to produce that classical Greek sense of virtue in it: moral excellence, excellence in the desire, ability, capacity to care for things beyond the narrow, individual self.
Can Democracy Survive the Age of the Idiot?
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No country in the world has been successful at it; Canada began to crumble after Harper was elected as prime minister and Europe began to crumble after the European sovereign debt crisis began.
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