Democracy is a lousy system which we're stuck with because of that thing in your Declaration of Independence about all humans being created equal. If you'd just kept to a rigidly defined social hierarchy things would run sooo much more smoothly... :)

The answer to the question "why do you think A?" is likely, at least in my case, to be "because I think B and C and A follows from that." If you trace it back far enough (probably having to resort to hypnosis) you might find the root of the belief is a completely unrelated event somewhen in my childhood that made me think Z. Sometimes it's simpler. I think democracy is a lousy system because every single government that my country has had since I have been old enough to know what a government was has been proved either corrupt, incompetent, or both, without even one exception. I don't have names and dates in order, but I remember reading or hearing about it on a regular basis since I was in school. On the other hand, I think we're stuck with it because I believe in that bit of the Declaration, and I believe that if Commander Vimes gets the vote, Nobby Nobbs *has* to have the vote as well no matter how certain we are he'll misuse it. Why I believe those things...I don't know.