Jonah Goldberg sounds quasi-treasonous:
I would rather live in an undemocratic country with constitutional rights, fair courts, and a government that upholds the rule of law than live in a democratic country without those things. I'd also rather live in a republic where democracy is tempered and cooled through deliberation and debate. After all, direct democracy is little more than the rule of the mob with ballots instead of torches.
I agree with him. This "American experiment" is not successful because it heeds the "general will of the people." It is successful because it is founded on an immutable Constitution and a Bill of Rights. Why wasn't democracy in France successful, if democracy in inself is so great?
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