09 October 2002

(...) If you wanted to hire/appoint/elect someone to administer your country, how would you choose? What makes a person suitable for such a role and what makes people suitable judges of who could fill that role? Therein lies the fundamental danger of democracy - the power to make a horrendous mistake, the power to have uneducated electors choosing unqualified practitioners. It should never be lost on history that Adolf Hitler came to office by winning a democratic election. (...)

from "Democracy sucks" by Paul Harris
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