If you distance yourself from reality and just cling to cliches about democracy find yourself a different job than analyzing politics

People are naturally born as Libertarians till governments and oppressive societies force them to adopt their ideologies and their ways.

Democracy is not just the right to vote, it is the right to live in dignity.

One has to understand that equality ends up by infiltrating the world of politics as it does everywhere else. It would be impossible to imagine men forever unequal in one respect, yet equal in others; they must, in the end, come to be equal in all.
Now, I am aware of only two means of establishing equality in the world of politics: rights have to be granted to every citizen or to none.

The major western democracies are moving towards corporatism. Democracy has become a business plan, with a bottom line for every human activity, every dream, every decency, every hope. The main parliamentary parties are now devoted to the same economic policies — socialism for the rich, capitalism for the poor — and the same foreign policy of servility to endless war. This is not democracy. It is to politics what McDonalds is to food.

everybody feels the evil, but no one has courage or energy enough to seek the cure