Call it what you may, 'direct democracy', 'people's power', or 'populist or bloody revolution.'
None of these 'systems' or methods are effective and appropriate ways of removing the current government and replacing it with a new one.
Yes, it is true that these rebellions, uprisings, revolutions, demonstrations, etc, provide a great deal of oxygen and meat for the media, be it the populist or more considered and serious media and broadcasters.
That they provide increased or new demands for the 'experts on international affairs' to demonstrate their relevance.
As well livening up the perennial debate on the comparative advantages of 'liberal democracy', versus the floundering of decaying dictatorships, and the apparent deficits of Chinese and Russian societies.
Not that these debates will necessarily provide the listeners and viewers with anything new or profound.
Since most of the media, whether it is acting as the mouthpiece of the East or the West, the North or the South, is already preprogrammed to disseminate the traditional dogma.
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