{"id":12998,"date":"2020-11-06T07:52:42","date_gmt":"2020-11-06T06:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=12998"},"modified":"2020-11-06T07:52:42","modified_gmt":"2020-11-06T06:52:42","slug":"messiness-envied-the-world-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wehle.ru\/wp\/?p=12998","title":{"rendered":"Messiness envied the world over"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/11\/05\/us\/politics\/biden-georgia-pennsylvania.html?action=click&amp;module=Spotlight&amp;pgtype=Homepage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New York Times 05.11.2020<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cDemocracy\u2019s sometimes messy,\u201d said Mr. Biden, who remained ahead in Arizona on Thursday night but lost some ground there. \u201cIt sometimes requires a little patience as well. But that patience has been rewarded now for more than 240 years with a system of governance that\u2019s been the envy of the world.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.as-coa.org\/articles\/remarks-donald-rumsfeld-2005-washington-conference-americas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Donald Rumsfeld, 2005 Washington Conference on the Americas<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Now, where&#8217;s it going to end up?\u00a0 It&#8217;s going to end up with, in my view, it&#8217;ll be a bumpy road, it&#8217;s not going to be smooth, but we&#8217;ll end up with a constitution being drafted sometime in the next period of months.\u00a0 There will be an election on that constitution towards the end of the year.\u00a0 There will be election for president and prime minister and parliament under that new constitution at the end of the year.\u00a0 And that country will be on a path towards a democratic system.<\/p>\n<p>People say, &#8222;Oh, they&#8217;re not ready for democracy.&#8220;\u00a0 Well, you know, nobody&#8217;s ready for democracy.\u00a0 It&#8217;s kind of a messy business.\u00a0 It&#8217;s not perfect.\u00a0 It&#8217;s not as efficient as a dictatorship.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York Times 05.11.2020: \u201cDemocracy\u2019s sometimes messy,\u201d said Mr. Biden, who remained ahead in Arizona on Thursday night but lost some ground there. \u201cIt sometimes requires a little patience as well. But that patience has been rewarded now for more &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wehle.ru\/wp\/?p=12998\">Weiterlesen <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ru\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ru\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ru\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ru\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ru\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ru\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ru\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ru\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ru\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}