Democracy Lost:Zimbabwe

In a cautionary commentary Dana Blankenhorn analyses the causes of a lost democracy. "...No one can seize power alone, and toss a system of popular government on the ash heap. That only happens when there are enough people committed to the dictator's cause that they can overwhelm, through discipline, the vast majority. One of the most recent examples we have is in Zimbabwe...Without an open, transparent, and nominally democratic system, no country can move forward. All must regress into tribalism, into tyranny, into barely controlled chaos, starvation at the point of a gun..."