> Strangely (to me) people sing the praises of democracy and disparage their existing democratically elected government with the same breath. There's nothing s

> Strangely (to me) people sing the praises of democracy and disparage their existing democratically elected government with the same breath. There's nothing strange about that. The point of democracy is not to make governments great, it's to be able to throw them out when they suck. There's not contradiction in thinking that your government sucks and in being happy about your ability to throw them out. > And most citizens of countries led by monarchs have far less to complain about governance (and not, as many keyboard pundits may guess, because of something crass like they'd get executed for voicing dissent). There are plenty of terrible monarchs. And some good ones as well. Monarchy's problem isn't that it makes the ruler bad. It is that if the ruler is bad, there's not much you can do about it.