The word “Democracy” is not synonymous with “good.”

In this surprisingly unenlightened day and age, the children of the village have begun using the word fascism to mean “bad” and the word democracy to mean “good.” Fascism is the easier word to understand. Mussolini’s Italy, Hitler’s Germany, Franco’s Spain, and Antonescu’s Romania were all examples of true fascism, and all served as horrific examples of humanity at its worst. The Fascist governments perpetrated one of the greatest evils in our history, World War II. Even for Spain, which did not participate directly in the war and its attached atrocities, the horrors perpetrated during the Spanish Civil War of 1936-1939 are not to be sneezed at.

Fine. Fascism has always stood for evil, and evil is baked into fascist ideology.

But is........

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