Democracy is Evil

Let me lay the cards upon the table: 


Democracy is the unbelievably absurd belief in the “collective wisdom of individual ignorance, ” and the utterly ludicrous assertion that the average plebian equals all and outclasses most. It is sown from the farcical doctrine of humanity’s fundamentally virtuous character and yet it invariably reaps every vice. It spurts from bloody “liberty” and leaps into despotism. It is a greased frying pan which bursts into fire, A seesaw weighed down with vice, Reliant upon a non-and-never-existent counterbalancing majority of good men, A tightrope ventured by a man with a broken leg, The sword of Damocles inevitably unleashed by society’s hair-splitting hacks and harridans.

Its doctrine of the sovereign will of the people is blasphemous, For the only sovereign will is the will which wills good.

Its doctrine of freedom is scandalous, For who in his right mind would stain the idea of freedom with the approval of sin?

Its dogma of compounded communal wisdom is idiotic, For what man honestly thinks that a crowd of people is on average more intelligent, More virtuous—wiser—than he? What great work of art or thought has ever been devised by a community or collection or board of artists that could ever compare to the great struggles and masterpieces framed by the mind of one ecstatic genius alone with his soul? Since when has eclecticism ever rivaled isolated singular idiosyncrasy? The quorum for great art has always been one, No more, No less. To say otherwise, To appeal to the idea that the mob is wise is delusion. I would trade in a thousand petty-novelists for one Dostoevsky, A thousand petty commoners for a Justinian, Constantine, Solomon, Or Hammurabi--hell, Even a Napoleon or a Queen Elizabeth.

When has a mob ever been reasonable? May we not infer from this that the majority of men are unreasonable? If they are unreasonable, Why should they govern?

If the majority of men are base, Then it follows that democracy is simply the rule of the base over the virtuous, And who save the base would advocate that?

“No democratic delusion is more fatuous than that which holds that all men are capable of reason, And hence susceptible to conversion by evidence. ” Most men are unreasonable, Uneducated, Unintelligent, Base, Cads, Cowards, Caitiffs. They should not govern. If the majority should not govern, Democracy is the wrong government for us all.

Democracy requires one to believe either that the majority of men are good and intelligent, Or that a majority of evil men have the right to rule over a minority of good men. Both of these beliefs far from inviolable and sacrosanct articles in the human creed; they are unviable, As evinced by the inevitable decay of Democracy every time it spurts out its ugly apertenance of evil from the roiling blood of revolution.

"Intrigue and corruption are vices natural to elective governments. "

"It is impossible, Whatever one does, To raise the enlightenment of the people above a certain level. "

"In all times, Therefore, Small nations have been cradles of political freedom. It has happened that most of them have lost that freedom by becoming larger, Which makes it very visible that [freedom] was due to the smallness of the people and not to the people itself. "

"Democratic institutions develop the sentiment of envy in the human heart to a very high degree. "

"It is not always the capacity that the democracy lacks for choosing men of merit, But the desire and the taste. "

-- Alexis De Tocqueville--