The problem with his thesis is, as he points out, democracy is currently supporting the factors he thinks will kill it. Why challenge your country's constituti

The problem with his thesis is, as he points out, democracy is currently supporting the factors he thinks will kill it. Why challenge your country's constitution when it's much easier to just convince people to let you subvert it? If Democracy is in any real danger I think it's from the ineffectiveness of the governments of the world when it comes to controlling themselves. It's easy to imagine a world where democratic governments simply run out of money and have to start cancelling debts. At which point banks start to fail and the government doesn't have the financial power to prop them up. Which in turn causes an economic collapse the likes of which we've never seen. That's exactly the type of environment that breeds dictatorship (and is in fact how Hitler turned Germany from democracy in World War II)