SMH @ the "democracy" fetishists here. Democracy is a pleasure of the wealthy. Look at India after sixty years of "democracy"... and look at states run by leaders like Park and Chiang or Lee. Would anyone claim Indian civil society is stronger than South Korean, Taiwanese, or Singaporean civil society? Yet we are expected to condemn the latter nations for their "undemocratic periods".
I'd argue that it makes more sense to compare India with Nigeria than with any of those countries. Certainly you can at least recognize the absurdity of comparing a state the size of India with one the size of Singapore.
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