Anoyone following what's been going on in Kyrgyzstan lately? It seems the Ukrainian success is starting to spread throughout the former Soviet Bloc! Many people do not realize what this means to the people living there... years of oppression at the hands of so-called post-communists finally coming to an end is what these people have been dreaming about for years.

I do believe they have adopted the colour yellow to mark their opposition... if so, long live the yellow revolution!

EDIT: this should probably go under 'current affairs'

Moved to current affairs.

Considering that democracy is an anti-concept we shall have to wait and see what it achieves. Only then can we judge it.

Couldn't have said it better myself.

True, but you cannot deny the fact that the Kyrgy people have at least taken a step in a positive direction. The Soviet yoke is still very much on the backs of those countries. It expresses itself through the corrupt and inefficent governments still clinging to the old soviet way of doing things. The fact that the people have stood up to put an end to it is undeniably admirable.

I may have been presumptious with the term "success for democracy." Democracy may very well fail in Krygyzstan; I am fully aware of this.

A pure democracy will always fail in the long run.

Pure democracy as opposed to....?

A system based on principle and not utilitarianism.

eg Capitalism.

(precisely!)
...implemented by a constitutional republic, as distinct from a "democracy."

But this whole thing is probably a step in the right direction for the former soviet nations... it's just that they have a looooong way to go.