[oblio]

It appears De Tocqueville was wrong.

For those who don't remember, one of his arguments for democracy was that it was a lot less likely for democracies to make such huge mistakes that endanger them, unlike autocracies, where the decision making is so concentrated and so swift that massive bad decisions can be made in an instant and there's no coming back from them.

If Australia, fully democratic and an advanced democracy, does this then we're all lost.