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Never Again: Never Again Series Supplement

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I have been looking for information on how world governments compare with democracy in America. R.J. Rummel presents a clear case for Democracy and Freedom as the solution to world peace. His documentation is extensive and solid. His thoughts are intelligent, logical, compassionate and filled with enlightenment! Rummel proves that the facts and truths of Democracy are making a better world and how important it is for us to reject socialist nonsense that has been proven wrong time and time again!

Professor Rummel's work follows up on his ground-breaking book Death By Government, a product of eight years of research into the causes and roots of Democide - defined as the intentional killing by governments through genocide, politicide, and arbitrary mass murder of its people. The key ideas of fostering democratic freedom are the cornerstones of current U.S. foreign policy and as Professor Rummel correctly observes, they are essential to eliminating Democide and ending wars between nations. Through empirical research the evident truths become exposed and the reader is left with the overall understanding that absolute power corrupts and leads to the murder of a governments' people and that only through restricting and checking power can these horrors be restrained. Democracies virtually never make war on each other and the more democratic two government, the less the likelihood of violence between them. So not only is democracy a solution to demestic democide, but globalizing democracy is also a solution to war. The existence and spread of liberal democracies (not just electoral democracies, but liberal democracies in terms of civil and political rights and liberties) provides the long run hope for the elimination of democide and war. Professor Rummel astutely notes that power's relationship to democide is on a continuum - the more absolute the power, the more democide. The problem is Power. The solution is democracy. The course of action is to foster freedom.