Why is Democracy Good? Ask Yourself These Two Questions.

Taking democracy for granted means we struggle to answer a simple question.

I’m not sure anyone’s done it exactly this way before before but maybe they should: Gather a group of 10 people in a room and without any warning or advance prompt, ask them two questions.

1. Why do you think democracy is good?

2. What do you think democracy is for?

Then with a different group of ten people, reverse the order of the two questions.