… is the best argument against democracy.”
So, it is often claimed, did Winston Churchill pronounce upon our system of government – his system of government – as one of his famous quotes.
Except it’s not.
As the International Churchill Society points out on their wonderful website with Red Herrings: Famous Quotes Churchill Never Said:
No attribution. Though he sometimes despaired of democracy’s slowness to act for its preservation, Churchill had a more positive attitude towards the average voter.
I often find myself in need of such positive attitudes when looking at the state of politics in this country and across the Western world, particularly in the wake of the results of the US Mid-term elections.
No, I do not say that because the GOP did less well than they should have, or because they lost some key races. I’m not a doppelgänger for the shrieking hysterics of the…
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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