[DaveTesla]

May I point out that WE The United States are NOT a democracy.

We are a Constitutional Republic.

We can fix what is wrong.
Either repeal the 17th Amendment or enact term limits.

As for our our form of Government it is not dead.
Just that our government is not practicing our form of government.
What kind of government are they not practicing you say?
A LIMITED GOVERMENT.

As the article tries to imply:
Life is too painful.
So what is left?
Death?

As for Democracy being dead what is the alternative?
A Monarchy, Marxism / Communism (pretty what is causing the trouble anyhow), or a dictatorship?
Those have been tried with disastrous results.

Lets fix what we have. Because there is nothing better.

[wendy1946]

Constitutional republics weren't intended as system for sharing power between groups which hate each other either.

The choice may be between increasing numbers of elections like the one which put Al Franken into the US senate, or splitting the country up.