"The great strength of a democracy lies in its capacity for self-correction."
Unfortunately, since the beginnings of the concept of democracy, in ancient Greece, this, of all things, has never been true.
Schlesinger, of all people, should very well have known this.
A system founded on principles of drift, impotence, and vascillation, punctuated by periods of paroxysmal excesses an crises, is hardly a self-correcting system.
Schlesinger likes to quote Tocqueville, so here:
"A democracy can only with great difficulty regulate the details of an important undertaking, persevere in a fixed design, and work out its execution in spite of serious obstacles."
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