alguém

I argued here (see point 3.) that for Protestants truth lies with the crowd, not with individual man. This belief provided the rationale for Protestants to deny the authority of the Pope and the principle of papal infallibility and to split from the Catholic Church. Furthermore, their belief that morality does not originate in religion, but in man's reason, made the Catholic Church a dispensable institution in Protestant societies.

It is the very same belief that truth lies with the crowd that made democracy the natural system of government in Protestant countries and makes it a very unnatural system of government in Catholic countries. The reason being that people born in a Catholic culture do not believe that truth lies with the crowd. They believe that truth lies with individual man.

For the last two hundred years, at least, Catholic countries have often tried to live in democracy. They always failed. They set up the same institutions they see in Protestant countries - a process which they often call modernization -, they vote democratically and they elect their governments. The point is that they do not have respect for their own democratic decisions. As soon as they elect a new democratic government they rush to sabotage the action of the government as much as they can. The reason is that they do not believe in the decisions of the crowd because for them truth can never lie with the crowd, but only with individual man.

Therefore, democracy in a Catholic country leads to a process in which the vast majority of the people are constantly depreciating, devaluing and boycotting their own majoritarian decisions. The first target is the politicians they themselves elected democratically. Sooner or later, nobody respects anybody in charge of instituitions, institutions start to fall apart, the economy paralyzes and society comes to a halt. It is then that the very same population starts to long for "alguém que venha pôr isto na ordem".