Democracy Is Hell and We Are Sisyphus

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.

We were all raised to believe that democracy (and most especially the constitutional republican kind here in the United States) is a supreme achievement in human political organization. We’ve been taught that being able to vote and run for office makes any such system “consensual.” We’ve been told that democracy means freedom and power to the people. Fr…