Democracy necessarily means a conflict of will and ideas, involving sometimes a war of the knife between different ideas.
If the lambs of the world had been willingly led, they would have long ago saved themselves from the butcher's knife.
Hitler killed five million Jews. It is the greatest crime of our time. But the Jews should have offered themselves to the butcher's knife. They should have thrown themselves into the sea from cliffs. As it is, they succumbed anyway in their millions.