I don't believe in democracy as standardly dreamed up. The problem is an idiot demos. But my contention is that I believe in the rights of this demos more than most who claim to be democrats. Most situations in everyday life contain no true democracy - work being the classic. We rarely believe social groups can work without a chain of command.
There are alternatives to "strong leadership" (which gives us goons like Blair, Bush, Putin, hitler - etc. the list is almost endless) and the farce of the current GOP list. The Dutch polder system is an example. But we generally shy away from collective decision making as too slow. Anti-democracy is built in to our systems. Think about our likely collective reluctance to pay me 90% of our resources if we had a business - yet we might not understand how those few doing such taking in the general economy take in the same way from us through ideology of the deserving rich. We would easily be able to vote against 'my 90%' - but how do we vote against Apple's sweatshops and cash held offshore? Are you a democrat?
