If the Iranian government is being too despotic, then Iranians just need to vote in candidates that will reform the government! I mean, if that’s what they think will work in the West, then it should be good enough for Iran.
“Sorry but democracy only works for white people, thats why we call Cuba a dictatorship despite the fact there are literal elections to pass laws like same-sex marriage”
Direct democracy isn’t democracy!! The only democracy is voting every 4 years to decide the colour of the party that will impose neoliberal austerity on you!!
Western liberals magically understand the value of putting one’s life on the line to fight against state violence when it’s brown people doing it in some far away country.
But when it comes to their own country, this would imply risk to their own lives - so their minds will come up with countless excuses and rationalizations.
That’s part of it, sure. But I also think the Western liberal sees the core of countries like Iran, China, Cuba, etc., as being so rotten that there’s no way to extract the will of democracy out of them and thus revolution is the only path. They’re broken beyond reform.
Whereas in the West, they can get apoplectic about figures like Trump bringing a creeping fascism, but they’ve got too much ideology to ever accept that the core of a Western state is rotten beyond repair. Thus measures like , reformations, legal challenges are always viable options because they see those as activating the good, democratic core.
If the Iranian government is being too despotic, then Iranians just need to vote in candidates that will reform the government! I mean, if that’s what they think will work in the West, then it should be good enough for Iran.
“Sorry but democracy only works for white people, thats why we call Cuba a dictatorship despite the fact there are literal elections to pass laws like same-sex marriage”
Direct democracy isn’t democracy!! The only democracy is voting every 4 years to decide the colour of the party that will impose neoliberal austerity on you!!
Western liberals magically understand the value of putting one’s life on the line to fight against state violence when it’s brown people doing it in some far away country.
But when it comes to their own country, this would imply risk to their own lives - so their minds will come up with countless excuses and rationalizations.
That’s part of it, sure. But I also think the Western liberal sees the core of countries like Iran, China, Cuba, etc., as being so rotten that there’s no way to extract the will of democracy out of them and thus revolution is the only path. They’re broken beyond reform.
Whereas in the West, they can get apoplectic about figures like Trump bringing a creeping fascism, but they’ve got too much ideology to ever accept that the core of a Western state is rotten beyond repair. Thus measures like
, reformations, legal challenges are always viable options because they see those as activating the good, democratic core.