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slicedtoad comments on Politics: an undervalued opportunity to change the world? - Less Wrong Discussion

1 Post author: wubbles 14 August 2015 03:45AM

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Comment author: Good_Burning_Plastic 14 August 2015 07:32:25PM 3 points [-]

If "except for all the others" only includes those that have been tried, then I mostly agree.

The original wording of that quote indeed was "No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time."

Comment author: slicedtoad 14 August 2015 08:16:37PM 0 points [-]

Hmm, yeah, I thought I remembered that quote having such a clause.