Denison Forum
Dr. Jim Denison
Only seven countries in the world—Saudi Arabia, Oman, the UAE, Qatar, Brunei, Afghanistan, and the Vatican—do not claim to be democratic.
However, as Winston Churchill famously noted, democracy is “the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.”
Just ask the folks shivering in the cold to vote in New Hampshire’s presidential primaries tonight.
Every state in the Union will hold a primary election or caucus to help nominate candidates for president of the United States. Then comes the political conventions, followed by more campaigning, followed by the elections. More than $10 billion will be spent on political ads this year.
And that’s just for the White House. In 2020, 2,371 people ran for the US Congress. Not to mention the multiplied thousands who ran for state and local offices and all the money they raised and spent.
Why do we do our governance this way?
There’s a right answer and a wrong answer. Choosing correctly is critical to our future as a nation.
