“BUILT squarely on equality and religious liberty as governing principles, democratic government in due course of time proves utterly incapable of protecting its citizens from harm within or without, for a system which grants equal rights to individuals and freedom to all beliefs has no legitimate means of excluding either error or its consequences from the body politic. In other words, democracy promotes and encourages evil by the very way it works, without necessarily intending it. Sooner or later republics auto-destruct for want of an auto-immune system. To dissolve them, nothing beyond the original sin at the heart of each of its citizens is required. Democracy is to politics what usury is to economics.
— Solange Hertz, Apostasy in America
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