It’s not that democracy is “fragile,” exactly, but it is “reversible,” according to former President Barack Obama. During an interview earlier this week at the Economic Club of Chicago, Obama reminded his audience to remain vigilant in protecting the values and institutions that make up American democracy or risk following in the path of Nazi Germany. “You have to tend to this garden of democracy, otherwise things can fall apart fairly quickly. (Obama admitted, however, that the latter sometimes drove him “nuts” during his time in the White House.) And the entire world was plunged into chaos.”“So you’ve got to pay attention ― and vote,” Obama said in video of the event.

Source: Huffington Post December 09, 2017 17:15 UTC