In the case we have been considering and in general, this pos- sibility does not greatly worry the liberal in advance because he will have reached his decision about the desirability of the reform by derivation from his ideology—which comprises a ready-made set of desirable goals—and not from slow, painstak- ing and rather
attention to the actual way in which assemblies, or whatever it may be, function.
James Burnham - Suicide of the West - An Essay on the Meaning and Destiny of Liberalism-The John Day Company (1964)
