And lo on Tue, 01 Apr 2008 15:10:36 +0100, Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> did  
spake, saying:

> Chambers <ben### [at] pacificwebguycom> wrote:
>> Democracy is a lousy system.  The only thing going for it, is that it's
>> better than anything else we've tried.
>
>> (Sorry, can't remember who originally said that).

Churchill

>   Someone has also said that democracy is a dictatorship of the majority.

Hmm Marx mentioned a dictatorship of the proletariat, but only as a  
transitional period between capitalism and communismm otherwise I don't  
know who said that.

>   IMO he's wrong. In practice democracy really is a dictatorship of a
> minority. It just fools citizens to believe that it isn't.

"In politics, an organized minority is a political majority"

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Phil Cook

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