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Democracy's greatest strength is its built-in self-correcting mechanism
  • Allows course correction when leaders make mistakes
  • Contrasts with dictatorships where errors compound
  • Requires peaceful transfer of power
  • Even flawed democracies outperform alternatives historically
Yuval Noah HarariPeople by WTF00:38:15

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The big advantage of democracy over all the other systems is that it is built on a powerful self-correcting mechanism... After four years, the people can say, 'We made a mistake, let's try something else.' Yuval Noah Harari
Modern politics is that it's not Putin making a promise to Obama, it's Russia making a promise to the US. It doesn't matter who the president is. The whole idea is you sign a peace agreement with another country. Yuval Noah Harari

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