Accusing me of avoiding the issue that a society that gives the commoner a voice in the law can/will open it up to gross moral abuses?
One would think that Greece’s more naked democracy would have brought their ruin faster. But it’s the US with its supposed representative government structure that has the buggery and grosser practices. Maybe it’s technological, that ancient Greece never had a very good contraceptive, which kept gaydom from hiding away in a background of compromised heterosexuals who were afraid of being called hypocrites.
Far from it. I called it a dark path because the alternatives to democracy have proven to be worse - in some cases, much worse.
"Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time. "
- Sir Winston Churchill