Democracy, Political Structure, Political Genesis

Churchill's statement, "Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others", implicitly accepts the commonly held concept of Democracy as a structure of a Polity.  It thereby overlooks a different evaluation of Democracy--as a mode of political transition. Its main rivals in that regard are violence and inheritance.  Now, there appears to have never been a substantive debate over the comparative merits of those three. But, before it is taken for granted that voting would be the unanimous choice among intelligent people, at least some Conservatives seem to prefer dynastic rule, and Nietzsche and Marx are among those who are not unequivocally opposed to violent accession to power.  Such uncertainties indicate that the debate over Political Structure should not be abstracted from that over Political Genesis, two categories which Democracy, perhaps uniquely, spans.