"Democracy," said George Brown, one time Deputy British Prime Minister, "sometimes democks." He meant that the results of democratic elections cannot be taken for granted. He had just lost a previously safe parliamentary seat in the Derbyshire town of Belper, after all.
That's the problem with democracy: the outcome may be surprising and unpleasant. Some commentators may even describe it as 'bad', as indeed they did this week when the German elections produced no clear winner for righ...
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