“[I]t is very clear that in fundamental theory, socialism and democracy are almost, if not quite, one and the same. They both rest at bottom upon the absolute right of the community to determine its own destiny and that of its members. Men as communities are supreme over men as individuals.” …So . . . this is really titled “Socialism Matters: Strategic Plan for a Coup”, essentially. What with socialism and democracy being so construed as “one and the same”, this is yet another bid for destruction of the Constitution and individual liberties to replace it with throwback tyranny and totalitarianism.
— Woodrow Wilson, Socialism and Democracy, 1887
“The Community” leaders are rarely among the most moral and responsible of the community. Most often, they are the manipulators, the blackmailers, the thugs who diminish any opposition with threats, slander, and murder.
Democracy is the will of the majority.
Socialism is the authority of the leader.
Democracy is anarchy.
Socialism is statist.
Wilson was wrong. The two are diametrically opposed but democracy is typically used as the means to achieve autocracy.