THE 21st century has seen democracy all but become autocratic, like the dictatorships that the forces of democracy vanquished a century before.
Militarisation of police forces, fortified protection for politicians, sky- high taxation, suffocating red tape in every profession, attenuating property rights, indifferent state health care, poor state schooling, a weakened currency, huge price inflation and declining voter participation.
These are just some of the symptoms of democracy that we initially thought democracy would mitigate but have become a global democratic phenomenon. In the place of the liberty it promised, autocracy has risen.
Democracy has failed, or is this exactly what it was always meant to be? Our perceptions of democracy over the past century
