With a sarcastic thread title like 'do we need' I suppose people can ignore those who were butchered in the Revolutionary War, Civil W, WW1, WWII and cold war in an effort to preserve that thing called Democracy. Untold millions of agonizing deaths are forgotten or never understood. If advocacy for fascist rule and by kings had been around for centuries on something akin to Facebook there may never have been democracy, liberty, justice and all that crap about freedom. Fascism is having a global resergence partly because the ignorant outnumber the intelligent. . . isn't that a kind of democracy of fools?
We would have to go back to ancient greece to find the origins of democracy;
In the future some of you will face a choice between democracy and fascism once again. Choose wisely.