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Sunday, February 22, 2015

Real Democracy


For John, BLUFThis would be good for George.  Nothing to see here; just move along.



Law Professor Ann Althouse gives us something from G.K. Chesterton's Tremendous Trifles.
It cannot be too often repeated that all real democracy is an attempt (like that of a jolly hostess) to bring the shy people out.  For every practical purpose of a political state, for every practical purpose of a tea-party, he that abaseth himself must be exalted.  At a tea-party it is equally obvious that he that exalteth himself must be abased, if possible without bodily violence.  Now people talk of democracy as being coarse and turbulent:  it is a self-evident error in mere history.  Aristocracy is the thing that is always coarse and turbulent:  for it means appealing to the self-confident people.  Democracy means appealing to the different people. Democracy means getting those people to vote who would never have the cheek to govern: and (according to Christian ethics) the precise people who ought to govern are the people who have not the cheek to do it.
When Mr Chesterton says "aristocracy" I think his meaning is not just Lords and Ladies, but also other forms of hierarchy. I like it.

Hat tip to the Althouse blog.

Regards  —  Cliff

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