Why should I believe in democracy if I think the majority is wrong 99.9% of the time?

@Daviszabecki The chances of a strong man being right are higher than those of the mob rule

@Cierzo You’re right. Let’s bring back Stalin. Or why not Hitler?

@Cierzo so let’s hear some good examples of dictators who made a success?

@Daviszabecki Strong man and dictator are not the same. De Gaulle, Lee Kwan Yew, Deng Xiaoping were successful strong men. I do not care whether they were dictators or not.

@Cierzo Well, the point here was to put democracy against a strong man, so ‘whether they’re dictators or not’ is kind of at the heart of the question.
De Gaulle was elected democratically, until he resigned since he knew he would lose the next election. That’s a bit how democracy works.
Deng Xiaopeng was successful, no doubt, but also the man behind the tienamen massacre. I can’t stand behind that.
Honestly I have to admit I know hardly anything about Lee Kwan Yew, maybe you’re absolutely right about him.
But even so, it’s so much easier to find countless of examples of successful leaders in democracies. Not just one or two, but hundreds. No because they as persons were extremely successful, but because the countries they led are successes — and continue to be so.