Democracy is easy to worship but hard to practice and almost impossible to export, perhaps because we use the D-word as if it were some formula that led to good governance: freedom, transparency, prosperity, security, or justice. It isn’t, though. Democracy is just a system we use to let governments succeed each other by having a majority of qualified voters elect legislators, usually for a fixed term. It’s a method of power transfer favored by societies that have already achieved a level of freedom, prosperity, security and justice.
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