If we consider democracy the maintenance of dissent, The Mechanics of Virtue, Matt Berry, aphorism 124

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If we consider democracy the maintenance of dissent, then the attack on democracy succeeds when the enemy is unambiguous ... obvious.  A consolidation of the party in power is secured.  Democracy is most secure when the people are not quite sure what to do next.  Ambiguity requires debate; unambiguity discards it altogether.





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