Democracy is a Religion Bumper Sticker

Not until the brutal, blood-soaked 20th Century was the term "democracy" mentioned in enlightened circles without a feeling of chaos and terror. The American Founders expounded upon the dangers of democratic mob rule, where the passions and bigotry of majorities could oppress the natural liberties of the individual merely by force of number and might. You could fill quote books with the admonitions of famous philosophers, statesmen, and authors against the evils of democracy. That is, until the 20th Century. By then, democracy had become the religious cry of progressives, socialists, communists, fascists, and every other philosophical sibling of statism. It offered real, positive progress - like rights to minorities, women, and children - but at a needless, cynical price of debt slavery through inter-generational theft and mind-blowing campaigns of death. Blood offerings to the God of democracy - the state.