Editorials | May 11, 2016
Democracy has tried to make power accountable by giving power to the people; but in practice it has left everyone and no one in charge, with most people in government being blamed for situations they cannot change, and "the people" left helpless at the mercy of bureaucracy. We have become servants of a system, which seemingly must be preserved at all costs, and has become as divine as the gods of money and of sex and of power, trusting it to save us and the source of life, liberty and happiness.
I think it would be unwise to wish to live under any other sort of human political system - as Winston Churchill famously said, "Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time." - but we should not expect, as many people now seem to expect, it to perform a role it can never fill, namely that of Lord and Saviour.