Well the core of the question is do you value democracy for its own sake, which is a valuable question since, as jwb put it, people have a sort of religious reverence for democracy that isn't necessarily based in rationality. And considering the limitations of democracy as it's been practiced in the real world and the form of democracy people have this irrational faith in, representative democracy dominated by the rich, it's really valuable to question it so long as you're not treating the question as a binary between authoritarianism and oligarchic representative democracy.
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Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien
There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.
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