Democracy is a great tool for people to decide on issues that have nothing to do with freedom and liberty.
When people start voting on issues of freedom and liberty, then democracy is a tool for tyranny.
Hitler overwhelmingly won a plebiscite in what was by all accounts a fair voting process. Do you think the Jews were therefore better off than they were under the Kaiser? What is the majority opinion in Muslim countries concerning individual religious liberty? Wiping out the minority is self reinforcing to a tyrannical democracy. Yes, the majority (of any particular moment) won't vote to kill itself, but the minority is totally at their mercy (or lack there of).
>>To simplify.
Democracy is a great tool for people to decide on issues that have nothing to do with freedom and liberty.
When people start voting on issues of freedom and liberty, then democracy is a tool for tyranny.<<
No argument here. That is why there is Constitution. Democracy requires mature minded responsible population to function.
Ignoring that fact was the major reason of neo-con nation-building blunder.