Democracy, the Good

Just feel like I ought to shake things up a tad tonight. Not like it really matters, unless somebody dares to drop in on the Rant. For those that do, this is what I have to say. Do some people delight in torment? Can it be fun to be cruel and callous, or must evil always be evil? Personally, I doubt if there even is such a thing as good, or as evil. There are terrible things, and wonderful things, but why should they be inherently good, or inherently evil? In political terms, can a politician do evil, even if it benefits a nation, or a region? Somehow, during the Cold War, much of the West felt that there were cruel and nearly evil things out there that could be used for our own benefit, and as long as it did so, somehow, it wasn't so evil anymore. The major definition of good was Non-Communist, and yet, what evil was done in the name of that good? Did not America and others take the name of good in vain, by supporting dictators like Pinochet, who "only" killed about three thousand people? And tortured thousands and thousands more? Just because they were opposed to the evils of communism? Stranger yet, when faced with the Villany of Hitler, we were bedfellows with the mother of that evil, the Soviet Union. How does that translate into a moral message for the generations after? What have the people of the younger generation, who listen back to stories in history books of men and nations the USA supported but did such terrible things? Many were non democracies, which toppled our beloved democracies, because democracy bred communism when the poor longed for a voice. Now we are being told that democracy is the ultimate good, and must endure because it is good and great and just. But what of the democracies democracy killed? Were they not just, Communism and All? Lobolius