Democracy- straight democracy- is a terrible way to avoid authoritarianism. So long as a majority agrees, anything goes. Un-democratic checks are required in a

Democracy- straight democracy- is a terrible way to avoid authoritarianism. So long as a majority agrees, anything goes. Un-democratic checks are required in any such system to prevent a tyranny of the majority. Unelected judges, co-equal to but with different powers than a legislative or executive body, are one such example. There's not a perfect system yet, because at the end of the day, it's always just a bunch of imperfect people in a shared imaginary game. I'm not holding my breath for technology to save us either, because I don't imagine any AI will do a better job- it'll have to be trained on human interpretations of that imaginary playground, after all.