Democracy has a strange and troubled history. In fact, the history of the twentieth century can be red as a history of just how difficult it is to create and sustain democracy. When we look at the history of democracy we can see a slow shift over the course of 2,000 years away from the negative view of democracy as a system that allowed the uneducated masses too much power to today’s positive view of democracy which has led to most states claiming to be democracies, even when they patently are nothing of the sort, because it is now seen as the most desirable system of political organization.