The best thing you can&#x27;t say about Winston &quot;I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes&quot; Churchill is that he wasn&#x27;t Hitler or Stalin or the more freedom-loving but less talented people. I think his cute quote about democracy is similar, it sounds insightful until you compare it with anything more serious.<p>Democracy relates to various implementations of it like &quot;blogging&quot; does to &quot;Wordpress version X.Y&quot;, and to various modes of control like an email from a friend does to spam containing a virus. There is a grey area, too, plenty of emails from real friends with viruses attached by intermediate servers.<p>I&#x27;d say the best thing you can say about democracy is that it scares power shitless, even when it&#x27;s hardly effective and comes from the guts of people more than adult and focused thought and organizing. Once we ever being implemented without anyone who doesn&#x27;t want it to work being involved, we can talk benchmarks. As it is, it&#x27;s like writing a program in C, then letting a bunch of cats walk over the keyboard, then compiling, and saying C sucks.