Which is why I am not in favor of our government’s efforts to promote democracy. It is not democracy that matters; indeed, a pure democracy is nothing better than rule by plebescite, which is hugely sensitive to emotional manipulation. Promote, rather, respect for the rule of law. Removing societal enforcement from the whimsy of the local strong-man is the goal, and that necessarily comes from outside of the individual; from outside of demography. By that, democracy should not be the goal.