6) Democracy Vs. Autocracy ("By Any Other Name") Comments

'Even in the midst of transition from an autocratic to a democratic state, although still imporvished, the democratic state will do as good as if not better than an autocratic run state, both immediately and in the long run; the Dominican Republic, India, Latvia, Mozambique, Nicaragua and Senegal are only a few examples of democratic governments that have outpaced many autocratic regimes.'
Since the world's sole superpower is a democracy with the largest economy, highest standard of living, and the most powerful military, basically leading the world in many fields from science to technology, it stands to reason that democracy would be the better of all the political systems. We know that the American government, through elected officials, is ruled by the people (with liberty and justice for all) . And because of being the world's sole democratic superpower, scrupulous observation has found democracy to be the most desirable because it has been proven to be veritable and superior to even the most successful autocratic governments (such as those of Saudi Arabia or the U. A.E.) . Most important, democracy has proven to be better than autocracy especially when dealing with weak and developing countries and their issues of human rights, inequality, representation and participation in the government and the decision making process if only through elected officials.

"In the literature on political development, democracy has been one of the key conditions. A democratic regime has an intrinsic value in itself, because its political norms cherish the active participation of the people in government. Moreover, democratic states meet certain criteria of political decency, such as the institutionalization of human rights, which are considered to be intrinsically valuable in international law as well as in several constitutions." (Lane, Ersson p.111)
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