For the first time since at least the 1930s, serious commentators in Western countries are arguing against democracy.
"Popular opinion is not always right," says the cult Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Zizek. "Sometimes I think one has to violate the will of the majority."
Britain's high-brow Prospect magazine agrees: "There are stupid, ignorant people in every country, but their blameless stupidity mostly doesn't matter because they are not asked to take historically momentous and irrevocable decisions of state.
"It is necessary to say that people are deluded and that the task of leadership is to un-delude them," writes James Traub in Foreign Policy .... http://www.washingtonexaminer.com
