Democracy is bad for the government

The purpose of democracy is to enable the people to be protected from the state. Because the state has a monopoly on the law this means that the state can potentially do great harm to the people. Whether this happens via a misallocation of property rights or direct theft the government can do great harm to the people which is why we need democracy. To be in favour of democracy is to be opposed to the state and to seek to place constraints on the power of the state. If we do not like the state we want more democracy. Democracy is good for people who do not like the state. If we do not like the state we like democracy.