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„This is pure ends-justify-the-means logic. And the means are pushing falsehood. The notion here seems to be that Trump is helping America avoid perdition, and thus must be given leeway to lie; if we didn’t allow him to lie, the left would continue to do so, and then they’d win and drive us straight into Hell. But that suggests that truth no longer has the capacity to drive voters or Americans. If that’s true, republicanism is finished as a principle – if we can only lie to voters to get them to vote for us, that undermines the decency of republicanism altogether.

— Fight!
— We did. We lost. It's a law now!
— Whose law? I thought this was a democracy and I thought a democracy was based on the collective will of the people.

Democracy is not a spectator sport.

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Bernie Sanders

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Democracy is a form of government which may be rationally defended, not as being as good, but as being less bad than any other.

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William Ralph Inge

You fight for the sake of it, or ninety nine percent
Just trying to make a shake of it
And yo you must be mistaking if you
Can't see your stake in it is greater than the vast majority
And you can stand there growling at authority
Cause we still got a democracy, and what that means
Is you can say what you feel
And they can't put you under lock and key
So many disappeared, so many lived in fear
But you know that here man, your brains the opponent
So many blown opportunities in the land of plenty
So many cats that let there souls run on empty it gets tempting
To let it all slide, make fate the fall guy
And join the could have been's.

All the ills of democracy can be cured by more democracy.

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Alfred Emanuel Smith

— Look, we... we don't need politicians, we've all got iPhones and computers, right? So any decision that has to be made, any policy, we just put it online. Let the people vote thumbs up, thumbs down, the majority wins. That's a democracy. That's a... that's an actual democracy.

— So's YouTube, and I don't know if you've seen it, but the most popular video is a dog farting the theme tune to Happy Days.