"I am, furthermore, very far from believing that we should follow the example that American democracy has given, and imitate the means that it has served to achieve that end with its efforts; I am not unaware of the influence exerted by the nature of the country and the previous facts about the political constitutions, and I would see it as a great disgrace for the human race that freedom should be manifested in all places with the same characteristics. "
Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859),
French jurist
In Spain as in Europe it is intended to import a type of regime that occurs in North America, but our circumstances are not the same. The American immigrants did it to a New World, some by their will and others forced. The slaves contributed during four hundred years to the aggrandizement and transformation of the continent. Since the Declaration of Independence and subsequent Constitution of the USA. UU It took almost a hundred years until the abolition of slavery and it was not by peaceful or democratic means but by a four-year civil war.
The circumstances in Europe have nothing to do with all that, and particularly those of Spain, here has not arrived any Mayflower, and the immigrants who come do not do it in conditions of slavery but on the contrary they are granted privileges that are well above what the Spaniards receive. As if that were not enough, the measures adopted by the different governments since the Spanish Transition have generated for four decades a tendency to non-reproduction with truly alarming figures that exceed the Nazi extermination, which, duly following Article 607 of the Criminal Code Spanish is a crime of genocide punishable by eight to fifteen years in prison.
"A society, which definitively rejects and conforms to its instinct war and conquest, is in decline: it is ripe for democracy and the government of merchants ...".
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900),
German philosopher.
"We are in the midst of what is intended to be a thorough reordering of the world by the most powerful states. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are only part of a supposedly universal effort to create a world order through the spread of democracy. "
Eric J. Hobsbawm (1917-2012),
British historian.
"If the war in Iraq had depended on the freely expressed consent of the world community, it would not have occurred."
Eric J. Hobsbawm (1917-2012),
British historian.
"The state of democracy in the United States, in a nutshell, is not very good. The list of problems of American democracy is long: public opinion polls show that citizens are more distrustful of their government today than at any time since the Vietnam War and the Watergate. "
Steve Jarding (1959),
American consultant.
«[...] And indeed, Athenian democracy of the fifth century a. C., understood today as a model of democracy by historians and political scientists, maintained its splendor based on war and imperialist policy on the other cities of the League of Delos, until Sparta (no less democratic than Athens, in the opinion of Plato and Aristotle), seeing that the Athenian dominion of the Isthmus of Corinth drowned the commercial relations of the rest, rose to the head of the Peloponnesian League and defeated the Athenian power ».
José Manuel Rodríguez Pardo (2018),
Spanish teacher.
"After the independence and formation of the United States, a federal state is formed with a single party, the Democratic-Republican Party -democracy as popular government, republic as national government, aristocratic, in the sense indicated by Aristotle and Montesquieu-, whose homogeneity allowed the march towards the West as established in the Manifest Destiny, where war of all kinds -either against tribes or against third countries, such as Spain or Mexico-, became a necessity to strengthen American democracy, thus increasing the territory, the basal layer ».
José Manuel Rodríguez Pardo (2018),
Spanish teacher.
«[...] However, the ensuing War of Secession, provoked by the casus belli of the attack on Fort Sumter was not such, as the Union stood firm, and those United States initiated with the independence of the Thirteen Colonies less than a century behind, they would become a Universal Empire, demonstrating that the relations between War and Democracy are as intense as those between any form of government and war. "
José Manuel Rodríguez Pardo (2018),
Spanish teacher.
J. M. Mora
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