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by wolverine876 1115 days ago
> There was no golden age of democracy. Democracy is just a struggle. It is a struggle to change public opinion and it is a struggle to bring public policy in line with public opinion.

I agree, to a degree. But things are much worse now, and many measures support that (some discussed in this thread). Also, democracy includes the protection of minority rights and the rule of law; it's not rule of human and a raw power struggle.