[forapurpose]

Thanks for the update.

> I am not sure it is fair to call it "undemocratic".

> It was hard to get out of that state of emergency precisely because it was 1/ popular 2/ politically dangerous (what happens if a major scale attack happens right after it is being lifted?).

If we define 'democratic' in the literal sense, majority rule, then I agree. But that's mob rule and not what people mean when they talk about democracy. Civil rights - protection of the minority from the majority - are assumed to be essential, and the state of emergency (if I understood correctly) suspended those rights to a degree. Civil rights exist specifically for situations like this one.

The way I remember it is the saying: 'Democracy must be more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what's for dinner'.

[relyio]

Agreed.