Democracy or What's Right?

[Furunculus]

A few things prompted my enquiry.

Firstly the situation in Thailand at the moment. Where a democratically elected party was removed from office by a combination of army and anti-democracy, pro-privilege protesters. I see a lot of parallels with the Pinochet coup in Chile and the Contras in Nicaragua.

I think that for many the character of the government is more important than the way it comes about, and my working hypothesis is that it's a trait more prevalent for the centre-right.

Personally I think that the democratic principle is as central as the rule of law, and without them we may as well turn the clock back 200 years.

chile and thailand are somewhat different examples, as pinochet is the result of cold-war superpower politics where proxies were used instead of europe as a battlefield. your talk of privilege and pinochet betrays a particular bias from the outset.

just so we get this straight; your working hypothesis is that right-wing people would hold doing what is 'right' to be more important than 'democracy' from the point of view of internal governance? let me firmly state that if this is the position then i as a right wing person am firmly on the side of representative government (by which you may read "democracy").