I guess why someone said "Democracy" requires eternal vigilance, and I'm to lazy right now to google who said it - so not vigilant myself this morning.

I don't believe however in the opposite: some kind of magical society that has no judicial system without judges etc and institutions to protect the public good. An Ayn Randian based society would result in just more inverted Totalitarianism - ending up in oligarchic control and corporatism. Which is, I assume, not what you are implying but putting in my two cents here.

As usual in any human endeavor, there needs to be some kind of maintained balance - which is clearly what we don't have in the US right now.