The most stable and popular government is, therefore, not necessarily the most “democratic” one, but the one that best considers public opinion and adjusts its policies to it when needed. The unpopularity and political instability of most Western governments today is partly explained by the fact that public opinion has been ever-more disregarded by the ruling minority, while elections have turned into superficially “mediatized” rituals.

This outcome becomes inevitable when more and more people in society are prevented from progressing economically, when they can no longer make ends meet, and when they are faced with mounting insecurity, decaying social services, and crumbling infrastructure. Either the nefarious effects of state interventionism—tragically boosted by the democratic process—become clear for the majority or else the downward spiral of wealth destruction and social decline will continue. Hopefully the ideas of freedom will become attractive again and the benefits of real capitalism will be understood, if the failure of democracy is finally exposed.