Democracy may not exist, but we'll miss it when it's gone

Free to be winners and losers (freedom/equality)

Shouting as one (conflict/consensus)

Give me liberty of give me death (taken/given)

Choose this, or else! (coercion/choice)

Is this what democracy looks like? (spontaneous/structured)

A Socratic mob (masses/experts)

A ruin or a habitation (present/future)

Conclusion : the anti-democratic urge.