Dumbocracy’s Demise: How “Fake Democracy” Destroys “Real Democracy” | Global Research

Dumbocracy’s Demise: How “Fake Democracy” Destroys “Real Democracy” | Global Research

“Anything you can do, I can do better. I can do anything Better than you.”— song from Annie Get Your Gun

The conventional wisdom is that democracy
is the best form of government. As the imperialist demagogue Winston
Churchill, put it, “It has been said that democracy is the worst form of
government except for all the others that have been tried.” But such
conventional wisdom comes by default. No one has ever offered any
evidence in support of it. In fact, no one even knows what such evidence
could be. No established criteria exist for the comparative adjectives
worst, worse, bad, good, better, and best when they are applied to
governments.

Furthermore, that democracy is the best form of government has not
always even been the conventional wisdom. Plato, who founded his Academy
in Athens around 400 BCE, where democracy is said to have originated,
writes, “Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy.” And at least
some of those who wrote the American Constitution in the 1700s were well
aware of democracy’s pitfalls and that no democracy had endured for any
length of time. John Adams writes, “Remember, democracy never lasts
long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself.” Despite their
knowledge, the Constitution’s writers persisted, believing that they
could build a nation that avoided the faults that had destroyed earlier
democracies. But they were wrong!