I'm not shutting anyone out from global governance

Colette - I want to be crystal clear that I'm absolutely not proposing to "shut out from global governance all states that aren't democracies, or even loosely considered democracies." The democracy criteria is strictly limited to new permanent veto-wielding members of the Security Council. (Note "new." Even a non-democracy like China would maintain its status by virtue of being an original member.) As I stated in my original proposal, "That doesn't mean those countries get excluded from the U.N., or even from the Security Council. It only means they don't get permanent, veto-wielding membership (unless they already have it as part of the original five.)"