Chris -- >>>Isn't that what you call a democracy? Where a leader goes against 85% of what the people want<<<
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You should know that it is likely that the only reason English, not German, is the prevailing language of the world is due to one man -- Winston Churchill, who stood alone against Hitler in 1940 and would not let the Brits sign a peace agreement, one of the conditions would have been that Hitler would get the British navy, which together with the French Navy, the Italian navy, the Japanese navy, and the German navy
against a piddling, at that time, US navy -- it is entirely probable that the US would have had to surrender to Hitler also
and only Roosevelt saw the problem and finagled help for Churchill
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so -- yes, it is important that democracy does not rule on every matter
