If the people really want to be done with democracy, who is to stop them? As another US Supreme Court justice, Oliver Wendell Holmes, put it, “if my fellow citizens want to go to Hell, I will help them.
但太多的民主自卫可能最终导致没有民主可卫。如果人民真的想和民主说再见，那么谁去阻止他们？另一位美国最高法院法官奥利佛·温德尔·霍尔姆斯（Oliver Wendell Holmes）说：“如果我的同胞想去地狱，我会帮他们一把。这是我的职责。”