DEMOCRACY WILL NEVER DIE. Democracy is the implicit "social contract" by which all societies - one way or another - endorse, condone, or overturn those who have found a pulpit from which to govern them. With votes or without them. But. But. Democracy in the form we have known it in many Western societies in the latter part of the 20th Century, and particularly into the 21st Century, has already gone. It will not return in our lifetime. What is now being extinguished anyway bears little similarity to the democracies attempted in various forms from the Magna Carta agreed at Runnymede between King John and the barons in 1215. Or the democracy sought with the US Constitution and Bill of Rights of 1789. Or the social contracts postulated by Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau in the 16th to 18th centuries. Or those of ancient Athens.
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