Democracy doesn't root well with poverty and Mugabe

Robert Mugabe and his thugs provide a prime example of how democracy, itself, is not the cure for national ills.

Democracy must be married to a history of respect for rights. It must be paired with significant investment in the process by the people who participate.

Without the proper investment in the process, democracy cannot take hold. The trappings of democracy, the voting, the campaigning and so on may be followed.

Those trappings are nothing more than window-dressing designed to fool the people and the world.

Poverty does not go well with democracy since the poverty creates great incentives to corruption.