Two cheers for democracy

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1. handrousDec 2021
   > That's what (I think) Winston Churchill said about democracy (might be true there).

   As E.M. Forster put it (from memory, so I'm sure less well-worded than the original):

   "So, two cheers for democracy—there's no occasion for three, two is quite enough."

   > But here, I think you can just "we have the worst system". Period.

   Yeah, our system's about as bad as it could possibly be and have held together this long, true. And our country's too disunited to ever fix that without breaking apart to do it.

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2. shantlyDec 2019
   > The best defense of democracy is Churchill's: democracy is the worst form of Government except for all the rest.

   So Two Cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism. Two cheers are quite enough: there is no occasion to give three. Only Love the Beloved Republic deserves that.

   - E.M. Forster, "What I Believe", 1939, from a collection bearing the name Two Cheers for Democracy

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