Them Democracies

A democracy is difficult to manage. If we have to poll the population every time a decision is to be made, no timely decisions can be made. Hence, the "experts" are left to make the decisions on the behalf of the people who voted them. What, however, happens if the people decide that the elected governors are making decisions that are not in accordance to popular opinion? People like to leave things be when they can. If a decision is largely unpopular yet not intensely bad enough to forment dissent, then it will not be opposed. Thus the beginning of an inching towards control of the public the government was elected to serve. Out of fear of creating instability, the tenuous position of a government approaching authoritarianism is maintained by maintaining the status quo as far as possible. "Deviant" populations are not supported. Minorities are marginalized. And all this to satisfy the majority. Because of the reality of the difficulty of polling the public, the government feels free to guess at what the population really wants. If the people insist on remaining silent on everything from discrimination to wars, then there will be no end to the problem of "democratic" leadership. Democracy is a lofty goal that has never been truly extant.