著名評論家孟肯（H. L. Mencken)曾調侃：「在民主制度下，每個人都會如願得到他所要求的政府，而且通常還遠超過他所能承受的程度」（Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.）；邱吉爾更冷嘲：「在政治裡，敵人坐在你對面；真正的仇敵則坐在你後面」（The opposition occupies the benches in front o 《詳全文...》