I want to respect the arguments of intellectuals, so I'll try to approach this carefully. I voted for "believe" and I'll briefly explain why. It's not so much because I view democracy as being perfect, divine, ordained, etc. etc.. but rather it's because I fail to see the existence of a superior alternative. As concerns Communism: I've never met a person, from children to the elderly, who didn't understand the concept of Communism in its basic sixth-grade-reading-level description. It's a theory which is hard to debunk because it's as simple and seamless as the Western phrase "Share and share alike" or "waste not, want not." In one piece, it seems completely sensible. ... That being said, I am still waiting to be shown a decent example of Communism in action that does not degrade to a system of self-deceptive corruption. ... THAT being said - democracy is guilty of the same thing, that it tends to collapsure into self-deceptive corruption.

So all things considered, democracy is the best of the evils at hand, in MY opinion, because since it PRETENDS to put the people in control, it has the least amount of actual unshakable control over the populace and their reaction.. Censorship may choke the rebel and the outspeaker in ANY system, but in democracy, we're at least aloud to SHOUT about our complaints and our problems, without being shot or declared insane or, as I've been told happens in China, suddenly be "picked up" by government agents, never to be seen again.

I personally think there's more hell caused by governments because they are of completely different and incompatible structures to one another, than because any one system is wholly right or wrong.

Thanks for letting me share my opinion. Thanks to Hanna for the provocative question.