The old saying that the cure for the ills of democracy is more democracy is not apt if it means that the evils may be remedied by introducing more machinery of the same kind as that which already exists, or by refining and perfecting that machinery.
Dewey critiques the notion that simply increasing democratic machinery will solve its problems.
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