Democracy is a system that bases its decisions on the number of votes, on quantity rather than quality. It is a system that has no fundamental understanding of the concept of goodness. Instead of posing the questions: "Is this decision good? Is this opinion just?" it asks rather: "How many favor this decision or this opinion?" Democracy, in its decision-making process, does not seek the good but numbers. Or rather, being unable to define the good, it surrenders its discovery to numbers, so that the good in democracy becomes what pleases the greatest number. This fundamental relativism is the basis of democracy. It fits into a belief system where the very notions of truth and goodness are inconsistent. At best, democracy can only temporarily obtain peace in society by imposing the majority opinion on the submitting minority. At no moment can it claim that it is seeking, discovering, and imposing the good.
Reprinted from The End of Democracy by Christophe Buffon de Chosal, translated by Ryan P. Plummer, Tumblar House, 2017, p. 127
