Surely democracy starts out as an alternative to war, rather than be the solution to all our problems. We need a Parliament because we are so divided and would

Surely democracy starts out as an alternative to war, rather than be the solution to all our problems. We need a Parliament because we are so divided and would come to blows without it. Of course that assumes that people can be corralled together into groups. The experience of the last ten years suggests that society is dividing into small sub-cultures that don't understand each other, or talk to each other.