The case for democracy is simply a case for making political decisions by one particular kind of rules rather than another; it is not a case for unnecessarily politicizing more and more aspects of life. This distinction unmasks the familiar demands for “democratizing” something or subjecting something to “democratic control,” which means government control. The distinction also reveals how illogical or disingenuous the phrase “economic democracy” is; such pairings of adjective and noun as “culinary monarchy,” “chemical theocracy,” or “meteorological dictatorship” are hardly less meaningful.
-Leland Yeager’s and David Tuerck’s Trade Policy and the Price System (is from page 81)
It is those two phrases, ” it is not a case for unnecessarily politicizing more and more aspects of life” and ‘democratic control,” which means government control.’ that is the purpose of this march. This is why our Founders HATED democracies – and made us to be a Constitutional Republic. A Democracy is simply a Mobocracy with (sometimes) better manners. Maybe.
(H/T: Cafe Hayek)
