[extropy-chat] No Joy in Mudville

[Damien Broderick]

At 10:34 AM 11/10/2004 -0800, Adrian Tymes wrote:

> > > "America is the worst democracy in the world, except
> > > for all the other democracies in the world."

>I was quoting Winston Churchill.

Well, no, you weren't. Churchill said something very different, making a 
general point rather than a national one. (And I rather think that had he 
wished to restrict his remark about democracy to a single nation, it would 
have been the United Kingdom, for all that he was half American by parentage.)

Damien Broderick
[what he actually said: "Democracy is the worst form of government except 
for all those others that have been tried."]