"The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity."
James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851)
Democracy is a decision-making method, one among numerous others, no more virtuous than Parliamentary, Oligarchy, Monarchy, Autocracy and more, each without exception forming an unethical Kratocracy (might makes right). As unrestrained Democracy inevitably if not immediately trends toward Mediocrity as James Fenimore Cooper rightly critiqued, it does so in parallel towards Tyranny.
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