Respond to the statement that Bubbles of Tyranny form within any democracy lacking sufficient strength or a sufficiently pervasive reach. Left unchecked, these bubbles always multiply and expand to fill and thus defeat the entire democracy.
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Both tyrannies and tyrants can be good as well as bad. As the ancient Greeks and Romans found out the hard way through centuries of trial and error, the problem with tyranny is the basic problem with life itself as famously compared by Forrest Gump to a box of chocolates: “You don’t know what you’re gonna get”. While it may spoil the surprise for some, in a strong democracy you do know what you’re gonna get: the people’s choice, each and every time. How boring is that would depend to some extent on how recently you had emerged from the last bad tyranny.