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Was there ever consensus? Yes.
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No. Please cite any elections or referendums to prove the existence of these alleged consensuses. Chairman Mao worked with a handful of people and consulted them. Does that mean Mao's China was democratic?
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Was there a form of representation? Yes.
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No. Please cite any elections documenting who selected these alleged "representatives." Sticking with the example of China (there are numerous others), there is a form of representation there, for more democratic than the caliphate. At least these guys are elected, albeit in a sham democracy. Moreover, they "represent" all Chinese. The caliph's advisors represented only Muslims. No "kafir" was allowed into the "Politburo", if you will during the early calpihate (although the Ottomans did have at least one Jewish vizier). You call this representation when a majority of the people it ruled were non-Muslim? Is China democratic?
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To claim democracy has a monopoly over these is insane.
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In theory it doesn't; in practice thus far it has. Can you point to any other representative system?
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When the cold war stopped, so did the very messy latin american policies. That was the point.
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What policies (the US continues to be involved in Latin America if that is what you are getting at)? The democratic trend in Latin America and Asia started before 1989. How do you explain that?
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I don't kow what you mean by "involved", but the nature of the game has changed substantially.
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Coups, military interventions, etc. Why do you think Franklin Roosevelt had to promulgate a "Good Neighbor" policy? It was an acknowledgment of not exactly being a "good neighbor" prior to that and we are talking about such an acknowledgment in the 1930's.
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And only a loon would suggest that they don't meddle...they're involved
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The same can be said about many countries--including your own. Why was Zia commanding troops protecting King Hussein in Jordan? Why was Pakistan "meddling" in Afghanistan by supporting the Taliban? Why is Pakistan training the military of Zimbabwe? And so on. It is funny how Muslims say zero about their own countries in this area yet whine incessantly about a distant, foreign country being involved in other countries.
Muslims need to look in the mirror now and then. There are a host of maladies endemic to the Muslim world (religious intolerance, suppression of women, jihadism, to name three prominent examples). This is not to say that such things don't exist elsewhere; they do. However, they are only common in the Muslim world. There are no laws in Latin America that say the testimony of a minority religion's male is half that of a majority religion's male or that a minority religion's female's testimony against a majority religion member is not allowed. There are no laws in Japan or Taiwan that ban women from working (The Organization of Islamic Conference's Declaration on Human Rights differs mainly from the UN one, which everyone else adheres to, in that it does not say women deserve equal rights as men). There are not armed religious militant groups in country after country in Latin America, Europe, or Eastern Asia.
Let's look at some of the countries the US has been most allied with since the Cold War, in no particular order.
UK: Rebuilt it, democracy
Japan: Rebuilt it, wrote its democratic constitution, was once occupied by the US
Germany: Rebuilt it, democracy, was once occupied by the US
South Korea: Democracy, was once occupied by the US
Taiwan: Democracy
The Philippines: Former US colony, democracy today
Israel: Democracy
Egypt: Autocracy (although according to your statements in this thread it is "democratic")
Saudi Arabia: Monarchy
Jordan: Monarchy
Turkey: Democracy
Poland: Democracy
Mexico: Democracy
The UK was already a democracy before the Marshall Plan, Germany had a democracy for about a decade before Hitler. The rest of the countries on the list had no significant democratic tradition until modern times yet they transitioned to democracy in recent decades despite being closely allied with the US. The only exceptions on this list are Arab states...