In a representative democracy the people do not vote on most government decisions directly, but select representatives to a governing body or assembly in order to do so for them. In contemporary usage, the term “democracy” refers to a government chosen by the people, whether it is direct or representative, liberal or illiberal. The danger of democracy is that the rule of the majority will marginalize the few, but where there is a sense of justice the few must be considered and their concerns dutifully addressed.

Here is my description of democracy that is befitting of the times.

Three wolves and one sheep are voting on what to have for lunch. The wolves, being a product of this postmodern age, have found a conscience committed to the fostering of pluralism and protection of minorities, especially those that bleet the loudest, and so will denigrate their own lupine cultural heritage while allowing the sheep to usurp the balance of power and manipulate the wolves to ravage themselves apart.

But tarry here a moment and consider this, that as the sheep devoured three wolves, the wolves in turn are destined to wander through the countryside clothed in the body of their diner, searching for a way back but finding only the path leading to the middens of some scattered memories among the new injustices of a most uncertain future.

The wolves had a commitment to each other also, and sacrificing cultural integrity for the sake of political correctness was a dereliction of their duty. Tearing up firm foundations to replace them with the fubbery of fashionable philosophies will serve us all quite badly in the end. From here and now to where? The desolation of a darkness gathering momentum and assembling itself in order to engulf and overwhelm is already at the door and the lair is left wide open.