Democracy is hard work. Building consensus requires loads of time and compromises. It's easy for people to fall in love with the "efficiency" of authoritarian regimes until their freedom and money are at risk of beging taken away. And most of us are in denial that would not happen to us. I wish more people would go to Taiwan and watch how people there passionately defend their democracy every 4 years.
Democracy is hard work. Building consensus requires loads of time and compromises. It's easy for people to fall in love with the "efficiency" of authoritarian regimes until their freedom and money are at risk of beging taken away. And most of us are in denial that would not happen to us. I wish more people would go to Taiwan and watch how people there passionately defend their democracy every 4 years.