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Princess Bride fans will hopefully recognize the nod to that movie, but "democracy" is all the rage today. Thus, it must be something good and virtuous. But by the prevailing illogic, to be opposed to this is to be somehow evil, perhaps even a fascist. Well, as it turns out, the democracy that people keep yammering on about is the democracy of Marx. I quote from the Communist Manifesto. It is, as usual, much worse than it would seem.
Princess Bride fans will hopefully recognize the nod to that movie, but "democracy" is all the rage today. Thus, it must be something good and virtuous. But by the prevailing illogic, to be opposed to this is to be somehow evil, perhaps even a fascist. Well, as it turns out, the democracy that people keep yammering on about is the democracy of Marx. I quote from the Communist Manifesto. It is, as usual, much worse than it would seem.