Tyrants' rallying cry: the nightmare of free people words that resonate across time before the dark descend.
History reveals what takes its place: Strongmen guaranteeing order when carrying out oppression, tanks designed as salvation. elite councils selecting the best alternative for mass they have never lived either amidst or understood.
Still, those who defend democracy must acknowledge its shortcomings mob law can oppress minorities. Uninformed voters choose demagogues. Particular interests purchase control Calling it free speech, Democracy moves sluggishly, frustratingly, Committees debating amid events requiring quick action.
Democracy is the worst kind of government. Churchill said, barring all the others that have been attempted.
It is not that democracy is without flaw; it's that substitutes are inferior monarchy, theocracy, autocratic rule Everyone focuses power in filthy hands.
Those aiming to eliminate democracy rarely own what they are actually suggesting: changing group imperfection under personal tyranny. Exchanging chaotic freedom for methodical domination, efficiency arising at the cost of chains.
Superior the disorder of voices than the silence of surrender, the slower grind of compromise becomes better. than than the rapid boot of control.