“If you have reservations about the system and want to change it, the democratic argument goes, do so within the system: put yourself forward as a candidate for political office, subject yourself to the scrutiny and the vote of fellow citizens. Democracy does not allow for politics outside the democratic system. In this sense, democracy is totalitarian.”

— J.M. Coetzee , book Diary of a Bad Year

Source: Diary of a Bad Year (2007), p. 15

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