June 4,
2025
Democracy and Choice
Nothing guarantees that the average citizen
will make the right choices — quite the opposite, in fact. But this is democracy.
The alternative would be an unelected authority, such as dictatorships,
communism, divine-right monarchies, theocracies, and so on.
Now, I’ve always maintained that democracy is not always and necessarily good,
and non-democracy is not always and necessarily bad.
However, hic et nunc — here and now — I
strongly prefer democracy.