Democracy's Doom

All political systems have the potential to be subverted by force or apathy.  With enough internal stress, they can shatter from within; with enough external force, they can be torn apart by dissenters.  One political system has a heightened vulnerability, however: democracy, by its very nature, is especially susceptible to implosion.  Any attempt to let the majority determine a path is undemocratic without following the majority down whatever path it chooses.  Of course, one of the many possible paths a democracy could take is one that spells the end of that democracy, and prohibiting any particular option is inconsistent with any political setup built on the will of the people.

Democracy always allows for its own proponents to choose a course of action that ironically overturns democracy itself.  In a purely democratic system, democracy is one vote away from being completely anulled and disregarded.  All it would take is a single major decision chosen by the will of the majority.  After all, a democracy ceases to continue the moment its participants convert to another political system, and democracy must give people the option to subvert a system based on majority choice unless it amounts to nothing more than a facade.  To withhold the choice to undermine and dismantle democracy would actually be an expression of anti-democratic philosophy.

A political system is not philosophically valid or invalid because of what its followers do or because of what it might lead to.  Believing otherwise means the embrace of slippery slope fallacies.  However, the fact remains that democracy cannot even preserve itself on its own terms in many situations.  More importantly, democracy contradicts the objectivity of truth, for democracy treats moral and broader political issues as if nothing matters more than the desires of the majority.  Even if implementing democracy did not ultimately involve a tumultuous clash of conflicting ideas, it would still be at odds with the nature of truth itself.

Democracy can be one of its own worst enemies on multiple levels.  Every political framework could be brought down with enough opposition or lack of support, but not every political system inherently holds the keys to its own doom in the direct way democracy does.  Since democracy is not rational because it elevates consensus over truth, the sound reaction to this fact is not to promote democracy while reminding people every democratic government is one group decision away from possible destruction.  The rational response is to emphasize the sheer stupidity of democracy as a philosophical-political worldview and never act as if group agreement has any sort of political authority whatsoever.