Democracy: The Age of Idiots

by Karl Richter

Karl Richter argues that democracy, by promoting incompetence and undermining societal protection mechanisms, has led to an age dominated by the dregs.

A sign of the ‘Devil’, the great confuser and disruptor of things that do not belong together, is that one is constantly surrounded by idiots with whom one has absolutely nothing to do. Democracy is, in essence, the age of idiots. It systematically promotes idiots by giving them every opportunity and placing them in positions where they have no place.