Quote Originally Posted by three and four View Post
PJ, it's easy to knock democracy when you're living confortably in one. To follow Moonbeam's train of though, it's the least worst system we have right now. What would you suggest as an alternative?
Common misconception there, friend. We most certainly do NOT live in a democracy. The U.S. is a Constitutionally Limited Republic. As originally conceived, democratic selection was limited to delegates, the House of Representitives (and NOT the Senate), local and state politics.

The slide into a 'representative democracy' is a tragedy that would have this nation's founders rolling over in their graves.

"A republic, if you can keep it."
--Benjamin Franklin