Democracy is not self-sustaining and may need undemocratic supplements.

Evidence

Even a radical or direct democracy, or one not saturated with capital, racialism, and so forth, is capable of dark trajectories or simply of neglecting critical issues such as climate change, species extinction, or genocidal warfare beyond its borders. Thus, there are times when democracy may have to be intermixed with practices of nondemocratic stewardship or contained by moral absolutes. Moreover, democracy is not inherently self-sustaining; it often requires undemocratic or ademocratic sources of supplementation or reinforcement. — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 413

Categorization

• XREF: Direct echo of Rousseau’s ‘forced to be free’ and the lawgiver — connects to the reader’s earlier engagement with democratic theory. — connects to: Public choice theory doubted that political democracy transforms citizens who never learned self-discipline. — Angus Burgin, The Great Persuasion: Reinventing Free…, 300; Democracy must be deliberately cultivated rather than assumed natural. — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s…, 16; Economization displaces democratic self-rule and its supporting institutions. — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s…, 15 (+1 more)