Democracy Always Fails
Why Mass Participation Produces Incompetence, Paralysis, and Collapse
The masses are told that democracy1 is the highest form of government. That it represents progress, enlightenment, and the moral peak of political organization and society.
People are led to believe that the voice of the people carries inherent wisdom. That collective judgment corrects individual wrongdoing or errors. This is a completely false notion.
It is a lie people tell themselves not because it is true, but because admitting otherwise would require confronting reality. Democracy has always systematically empowered ignorance and institutionalized incompetence as policy. What the ancients understood as mob rule, people now celebrate as popular sovereignty. What Plato identified as the tyranny of the unqualified, many now frame as freedom. The masses have taken the warning and turned it into a virtue. This is not progress, it is self-deception elevated to civilizational dogma.