Worst form of government

[Jazzy]

"Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time." ~Winston Churchill

Question:

What does this mean?

 

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

I think what he means is a true democracy is mob rule.

But I will let these two quotes speak for me.

There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave men by force, socialism—by vote. It is merely the difference between murder and suicide.

Socialism is the doctrine that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that his life and his work do not belong to him, but belong to society, that the only justification of his existence is his service to society, and that society may dispose of him in any way it pleases for the sake of whatever it deems to be its own tribal, collective good.

 

[DrLeftover]

I think Sir Winston's statement simply means that out of a vast range of really bad ideas, democracy is the least worst.