I have spent my adult life in defense of democracy.
Even so, I sometimes find democracy puzzling. What is it, exactly? How do you get it? How do you keep it?
I have some ideas on the subject, which I hope to share from time to time.
The first question to examine is, what is the relationship of democracy to elections?
Can you have democracy without elections? Possibly. There may be other methods of popular choice of leaders than elections. Offhand, I can't think of any historical examples, though.
Can you have elections without democracy? We have seen all too many examples of that.
Tentative conclusion: "popular choice of leaders is a necessary but not necessarily sufficient condition for democracy."
Give it some thought.
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