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Originally Posted by searcher of truth
Well, I think reality is not much far from what you say as it is only during elections that people shows how "democratic" they are ... more or less like some people who are patriots only when their national team is about to play a football match  |
The levels of Democracy maturity in a country are often measured by analysts in terms of electoral turn-out. Which coincidentially happens to be usually low in most of the so-called Democratic countries.
Another detail to notice here is that the turn-out is higher in by-elections (local elections) than it is in general (country-wide) elections. When it comes to the elections for the Euro-parliament, the turn-out falls even deeper.
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