Incompetence is the real threat to democracy

The most famous quotes in praise of democracy do not make a principled case for it. If, as Winston Churchill claimed, it is the worst form of government bar all the others “that have been tried”, then verifiable outcomes are what matter.


If the idea takes hold that China has controlled the virus and avoided a recession, while the US remains beset by both, the signal to the rest of the globe will be unmistakable. Autocracy is the strong horse.


Democracy’s rival is no longer an unworkable Soviet dogma, but a pragmatic superpower that is only nominally communist.


FT 28 October 2020


https://www.ft.com/content/92ec21e7-2070-4105-b145-1063fa3c6b41


https://www.svd.se/konsten-att-lara-folket-hur-det-borde-rosta

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