Comment by FirmwareBurner

>Democracies can and do correct.

Yes, but when you ignore citizens' demands for too long, they will then over-correct in the opposite direction: see Hitler, Brexit, Trump, AFD, LePenn, Meloni, etc. History has proved this to be correct 100% of the time.

>For example the progressive movement in the US

Can you provide more details, I'm not an US citizen.