So, looks like the little experiment in "democracy" isn't going the way Chimpy planned. Well, just minor details remain, like THE ROLE OF ISLAM, FEDERALISM, ETHNIC AUTONOMY and WHO CONTROLS THE OIL!!!
So
1) we can have the process tainted by real or perceived U.S. interference
2) the tough issues can just be pushed down the road to reach a face-saving deal (like, oh, I don't know, SLAVERY? How did that work out?) or
3) it all just blows up.
Freedom is on the march!
But once it's done, it will just be beer and skittles. After all, popular insurgencies rarely last long or cause much damage, such as that little one led by Emilio Aguinaldo.
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Actually, slavery ended up working out how Adams and the boys thought it would. They couldn't sell the south on getting rid of it, and hoped that the country would be strong enough to survive the battle that came later. Luckily, we had Lincoln to keep things together. Of course, he did it by letting Sherman burn the south down. Do you think Sherman's busy these days?
The framers that hot summer in Philadelphia could also afford to postpone the slavery question and hope, perhaps a bit unrealistically, that slavery might evolve away. After all, it was nowhere near either the economic structure or social control mechanism of the pre-Civil War generation. iIt took the convergence of the Industrial Revolution (offering at once the demand for raw materials (textile mills), the means of producing those materials (the cotton gin) and moving them, from canals to steamboats and then to railroads. Toss in a Louisiana Purchase with thousands of unpopulated acres of cotton-friendly cheap land and--hello slavery!
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