Democracy,'...the worst of all possible systems'

We have the same logic with democracy: it is - to use the worn-out phrase attributed to Churchill - the worst of all possible systems; the only problem is that there is no other which would be better. That is to say, democracy always entails the possibility of corruption, of the rule of dull mediocrity, the only problem is that every attempt to elude this inherent risk and to restore 'real' democracy necessarily brings about its opposite - it ends in the abolition of democracy itself Here it would be possible to defend a thesis that the first post-Marxist was none other than Hegel himself: according to Hegel, the antagonism of civil society cannot be suppressed without a fall into totalitarian terrorism - only afterwards can the state limit its disastrous effects by  'panlogicist' sublation, the doctrine that the absolute or the absolute reality is of the nature of logos or reason sublation (edit out)