Democracy isn’t freedom. Democracy is mob rule.
We need to be careful to always promote individual rights instead of democracy. Basing anything on “the will of the people” is a recipe for disaster.
When you set democracy as your ideal, without constitutional restraints on government that provide for the protection of every individual’s rights, you get an evil entity like Hamas running things in the Gaza Strip and sending mortars into Israel. This legitimizes any winner of a democratic election and sanctions their future actions thus making it more difficult to oppose them when they continue their evil ways. Validating the authority of organizations that consistently violate individual rights by giving them the weapon of democracy, or by giving them a seat in the UN for that matter, is a mistake that we need to stop making.
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