Spread of Democracy

Baltimore Sun:

IT WAS A notably superlative milestone: At more than 570,000 polling stations on some 14,000 islands spanning three time zones, an estimated 130 million Indonesians -- 90 percent of the electorate -- voted this week in the first direct presidential elections in the world's fourth-largest nation (which, not incidentally, happens to be home to the world's largest Muslim population).

The rest of the article goes on to talk about other emerging asian democracies. It also points out that asia was once seen as a region that was unsuitable for democracy, like the middle-east is considered by many now. Democracy in third world contries is still a messy process, ripe with coruption. Our own democratic history (and some would say present) is hardly free from that blemish either. Despite this, democracy does work, and will work for all people. There may be a better way to govern, and if there is I look forward to a time when we discover it. Right now democracy is the best we know and in my opinion it is pretty good.