Your comment is both absurd and a non sequitur. I assume you are a fan of Christianity? My post is not complaining about ailing democracy, it’s pointing out that democracy can be despotic; I am actually arguing that a stronger, freer society might result from *less* democracy, and that we should consider implementing that trade-off. It may be that we have too much democracy!

That said, I have no idea how democracy goes hand in hand with Christianity. Christ didn’t speak a word about democracy, or any system of government, but his organization certainly wasn’t democratic. When did the apostles take a vote? Have you ever attended a church where votes are taken?

The first democratic republics were pagan: in Greece and Rome. The onset of Christianity brought about the least democratic society imaginable: the feudalism of the dark ages, which lasted hundreds and hundreds of years.

“True Democracy” (where every person in the society has an equal vote on each issue) has never been tried on a national scale, and only recently have we come into the technology where it would even be possible.

Historians say the most efficient form of government is actually a Benevolent Dictatorship where the leader does have the best interests of the people in mind.