You know, such mantra needs more than just repeating it...
If you look at history, there was plenty of innovation done during definitely "undemocratic" periods; possibly by far most of it.
And, when looking at last few decades, it seems that creating a bogeyman, revving up the people on some lies (say, red scares or the myths of bomber, missile, or mine shaft gaps) - which, of course, depend on "undemocratic" flow of information - while assuring "bread and games" works at least as good.
(and if you're a small ~democracy in, say, South America but not aligned properly with "the good guys" - you might very well be "democratically" given some coup d'etat and brutal dictatorship)
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