[batgaijin]

would you rather live under ruthlessly intelligent fascism?

I think democracy is pretty great actually. I think we just screwed up requiring arguing from some sort of moral-free first principles.

[getone]

saying democracy doesn't obviously doesn't mean I'd desire something worse. What gave you that idea?

A pure democracy is a joke. A Republic was a fine idea, but the US has done a really poor job of understanding the notion of a sovereign citizen (as opposed to whatever king .. er president is in power)