Thursday, July 21, 2016

Words from a Wise Turk

The worst democracy is better than the best coup.

–Koray Suzer, a 25-year-old Istanbul resident, quote in the Times

3 comments:

pithom said...

That's clearly utter nonsense.

pootrsox said...

Really? Not if you truly believe that democracy-- even representative democracy-- is superior to government by military force.

G. Verloren said...

Technically there's some ground for discussing the potential for a so-called "enlightened despotism" or similar, but from past experience I think it's clear that's not what pithom had in mind...