Problems created by Democracy cannot be solved with Democracy.
Never forget the story of Lucius Cincinnatus, one of the greatest and most virtuous men who has ever lived. When the Roman Republic stood on the brink of annihilation due to corruption and political division, only Cincinnatus seizing absolute power and aggressively wielding it saved Roman civilization from an early and unsightly end. And when the problem had been resolved, when Rome at last stood free and saved, liberated from the disintegration rotting her from within, Cincinnatus abdicated his throne and restored the Republic, returning to his farm to labor once again in the fields. This is manliness. This is virtue. This is honor. This is justice.
Absolute authority is feared by those whose nefarious and predatory designs would be undone by such power. The common man has never feared the Emperor, for the Emperor is easily felled by the assassin's blow. Should he turn against the people whom he exists to protect and serve, he will fall in short order. Only those who dream themselves kings fear the wrath of a true king. And so the two-pronged attack on the West was made, on the one hand to indoctrinate us to the idea that such authority is inherently wicked, and on the other to rob men of all virtue and honor, so that should any such authority ever arise, it would merely serve their interests in proving such authority illegitimate.
Again, as in all things, the Bible is the final arbiter. Power is not the root of all evil. Money is. The great perpetrators of evil in the world are not kings or emperors, but merchants and traitors, betrayers of blood and nation, who are rootless and filled with rage and malice born from envy and impotence.
Peace in the Roman era was an idea of unity. Of justice. Of law and order and harmony, the opposing force of chaos and discord. Peace is not the opposite of war, as we have been corrupted into believing in the degenerate postmodern era. One could be peaceful and still wage war. One could be peaceful and still engage in conquest. A mighty river was peaceful, though there may indeed be a great and sweeping force behind it, for it flowed united in a single direction and followed it's natural course. Peace was the synthesis of the highest virtues of the Classical world, of unity and charity and strength, of honorable conduct not just against ones kin, but against enemies as well. To stand united, for all of one blood to move in concert and harmony. To build instead of tear down, to create instead of destroy. To be fruitful and multiply instead of being barren and hollow. To safeguard and spread civilization instead of allowing it to languish and fall into anarchy and chaos.
The Romans were peaceful, or tried to be. At the height of it's power, the British Empire was peaceful. And when settlers and colonists came here to the New World from the Old, they too were peaceful, and lived as peaceful men ought.
When Christ declared himself the Prince of Peace to his audience, they understood what this meant, though we struggle to grasp it in this fallen era. And when he declared that though he was the Prince of Peace, he did not come bearing peace, but rather a sword, that too had a clear meaning.
Peace would not be given to us. Peace would have to be taken. He merely gave us the tools to achieve it. It is up to us to take our inheritance and polish it, or to abandon it and allow it to fade away, ourselves along with it.
If you believe we can achieve Peace through Democracy, you are sadly mistaken. Democracy was implemented to destroy our Peace. It holds no salvation for our people. We will be saved by the sword, and nothing else. This was true two thousand years ago. It remains true to this day. We are ideological outlaws, rebels against a world that doesn't want to be saved. We soldier on, because we must, because our people need us, and because no one else will.