Trent W. Buck <trentbuck@gmail.com> wrote:
Our government makes a lot of dick moves, but what I've read of (say) Mao's Great Leap Forward sounded worse.
"This campaign, exacerbated by natural disasters that occurred at the time, led to the deadliest famine in history." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chairman_Mao
Or the Congo under Leopold, or apartheid-era South Africa, or...
European fascism and communism in the twentieth century, culminating in World War II for example... or North Korea, Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Somalia... right now. Arguably, Somalia isn't a good example because it hasn't had a functioning government since 1991, and you could say that the absence of a government isn't really a case of bad government.
Pretty much anywhere outside of northern Europe looks to be worse overall right now, let alone in all history.
Exactly, and northern Europe has had its own (distant and receding) history of conflict.