“Democratic elections, being an alternative to war – a demonstration of violent

—“Democratic elections, being an alternative to war – a demonstration of violent capacity (in theory, no longer in practice) – to avoid the need for fighting by showing one’s strength without loss of life, was then subverted by universal suffrage which diluted the implied violence behind voting, without diluting the actual violent capacity. It’s now probable that a minority may have far more violent capacity than 51% of the voters.”—Steve Pender