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The Three Pillars are looking rather shaky right now...
The biggest problem that I can see - is if our our democracies are failing to live up to this, how can we expect emerging and developing countries to opt for the democratic governance model for their own countries? Why would they?
Democracy needs CPR. STAT. And the biggest injection it needs of all is pillar three... if our leaders reject (piss all over) the rule of law and trample on the human rights of 'other' democracy no longer exists in any real sense.