Look, the whole reason democracy exists as an institution is not that it will give us a good government. It doesn’t and won’t. Rather, the point is when choosing a ruler, it’s safer to vest power in the idiots than a tyrant because the idiots can’t manage to stay on task for more than a few minutes at a time. Democracies stagger from hither to yon, repeatedly doing dumb shit — but all the dumb shit they do tends to balance out the boat and keep it moving forward somehow. That’s a very good thing. Dictators get mean over time and then pass their crowns to some bastard like Caligula or Asshat III. Better the plebeian wobble than the clown hammer of despotism.
Like this content? Why not share it?
