[Joe Brower]

Perhaps of interest.

[Dog Gone]

Since Woodrow Wilson proclaimed that democracy was the destiny of humanity, more than 100 democratic governments have crashed and burned around the globe, replaced by dictators, juntas, or foreign conquerors.

I don't know where he gets his numbers. Perhaps he's counting several countries several times as their form of government vacillated.

There are unquestionably far more democracies today than in Wilson's time, so when you start off with a deceptive premise, the rest of the conclusions aren't going to be too solid.