[coldtea]

>Run a democracy long enough and you'll have the boot of 51% of the population on the other 49.

Why is there a 49% of people with widely different ideas about what's to be done and what's good than the rest 51% of them? What kind of fucked up society would that be?

Democracy pressuposses a shared base consensus about reality and what's good, and then arguing about the specifics and the approaches.