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What’s So Great About Democracy?

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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2023
If our way is freedom, then other nations on their disastrous roads may someday listen to reason and follow us as all civilized nations followed Great Britain during the nineteenth century. Law, order, and peace may then return once again to a battered world suffering from an absence of individual freedom and free enterprise.
– Hans F. Sennholz, Welfare States at War [1957]

HORNBERGER’S BLOG
September 29, 2023
What’s So Great About Democracy?
U.S. officials and statists in the private sector incessantly sing the praises of democracy. They even invade and wage wars of aggression against countries that lack democracy.  But what really is so great about democracy? Actually, only one thing. And, no, it’s not freedom. After all, if democracy is so great, why does the Bill of Rights protect us from it? We …
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