Inflation and the Destruction of Democracy: The Case of the Weimar Republic

https://www.jstor.org/stable/4224593?seq=1

Greenwald: Empowering the "Deep State" to Undermine Trump is Prescription for Destroying Democracy

https://www.democracynow.org/2017/2/16/greenwald_empowering_the_deep_state_to

The World’s Most Famous Economic Hitman Confesses – They’re Coming for Your Democracy

http://libertyblitzkrieg.com/2016/03/25/the-worlds-most-famous-economic-hitman-confesses-theyre-coming-for-your-democracy/

The Best "Democracy" Money Can Buy: For Every Dollar Spent Influencing US Politics, Corporations Get $760 Back

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-03-16/words-greatest-investment-every-dollar-spent-influencing-us-politics-corporations-ge

Ron Paul: 2-party US political system in reality a monopoly

http://rt.com/usa/202295-ron-paul-midterm-elections/

“What do they do with our young people? They send them all around the world, getting involved in wars and telling them they have to have democratic elections,” he told RT. “But here at home, we don’t have true Democracy. We have a monopoly of ideas that is controlled by the leaders of two parties. And they call it two parties, but it’s really one philosophy.”

In the US, democracy is now a sham

http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2014/04/in-us-democracy-is-now-sham.html

US 'Democracy Promotion' Destroys Democracy Overseas

Ron called it--10 years ago.

http://ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2014/march/23/us-democracy-promotion-destroys-democracy-overseas.aspx

A Republic, Not a Democracy

The old Soviet Union was ruled by a few men, as was China.  It is still, to a lesser extent.  The US is headed toward that model.

http://paul.house.gov/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2009:a-republic-not-a-democracy&catid=64:2012-texas-straight-talk&Itemid=69

What Democracy?

http://www.mises.ca/posts/blog/what-democracy/

Yet another reminder that democracy is an illusion

http://www.sovereignman.com/expat/yet-another-reminder-that-democracy-is-an-illusion/

Paul Craig Roberts, "There Is Probably More Democracy In China Than There Is In The West"

http://www.zerohedge.com/article/co-founder-reagonomics-paul-craig-roberts-there-probably-more-democracy-china-there-west

"The west prides itself that it is the standard for the world, that it is a democracy. But nowehere do you see democratic outcomes: not in Greece, not in Ireland, not in the UK, not here, the outcomes are always to punish the innocent and reward the guilty. And that's what the Greeks are in the streets, protesting. We see this all over the west. There is no democracy, there are oligarchies, some of these smaller European countries are not even run by their own governments, they are run by Wall Street... There is probably more democracy in China than there is in the west. Revolution is the only answer... We are confronted with a curious situation. Throughout the west we think we have democracy, we hold ourselves up high, we demonize China, we talk about the mafia state of Russia, we talk about the Arabs and so on, but where is the democracy here?"

Democracy

Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the University of Edinburgh, wrote the following about the fall of the Athenian Republic:

A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations from the beginning of history, has been about 200 years.

Tyler published this in the late 1700's.