The Atlantic: A WARNING FROM EUROPE: THE WORST IS YET TO COME

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29. Sounds like you would prefer no

authority anywhere, i.e. anarchy.

There will always be some type of authority among human beings. If you remove all authorities and rules, individuals and groups would still assert themselves and vie for the right to own and control their own territory or region. We do that now, even with authorities and rules. It would be more despotic without them, not more democratic.

In a democratic system, the people participate in choosing the rules, who will uphold them, and by what means the rules will be upheld. In a democracy the people can protest how things are being done and work to change them.

Democracy does not mean the absence of rules and people who uphold them. It means participating in deciding what the rules are and who will represent the people's interests. That's why it is such a big deal if those representatives use their position to look after only their own interests, at the expense of the people. That's why it's a big deal when some people are left out of the deciding process. That's why it is a big deal when people in authority abuse their authority.