WSJ Not Understanding What the "Crisis in Democracy" Is All About

It's more than a little ironic that an article lamenting about a crisis of democracy turned off commenting.

Unfortunately the author was not talking about democracy here in the US.  No, he is worried that it is not being exported enough throughout the world.  I don't particularly care about that as I watch our own democracy crumble (like the author I am using "democracy" interchangeably with "republic").

One of the problems is that an increasing number of people believe no one is listening to them, like the comment section above.  And if no one is listening, people will go to greater and greater lengths to be heard.

Of course Western "democracies" are cracking down ever more on speech, a result of multiculturalism.  The more MC there is, the more the population and its speech has to be controlled.

In New Zealand, it is illegal to even possess the manifesto of the recent mass shooter, and they are activity prosecuting several who distributed the video.  In England, criticizing the make-up or religion of immigrants can lead to fines and jail time.   The idea of using the state to enforce and prosecute “hate speech” was signed on by most Western democracies just last week.

And with increasing control of speech in "democracies", aided and abetted by Google, Twitter and Facebook, why would anyone think "democracy", as it is developing today, is better than other forms of government?