But if you lived in a universe in which democracy wasn’t the high-status mode of governance, and asked them if they wanted it, with all its attendant consequences, they would say no. It would never occur to them to invent all the clever rationalizations that someone resigned to democracy would devise.
Um, historically that is precisely what happened in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Is this accurate? Isn’t it better to say they wanted representative governance while at first denouncing democracy as a horrid system (at least the US founding fathers did) but found themselves on a slippery slope.
Um, historically that is precisely what happened in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Is this accurate? Isn’t it better to say they wanted representative governance while at first denouncing democracy as a horrid system (at least the US founding fathers did) but found themselves on a slippery slope.
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