The fact that these people believe that their current system of government is better - i.e., that the result of a democratic election would be to avoid democrac

The fact that these people believe that their current system of government is better - i.e., that the result of a democratic election would be to avoid democracy - should cause us to worry if the same effect is at play when people who have lived their whole life under a democratic regime say that their current system of government is better, too.