Every time I hear some talking d***head or idiot politician refer to the U.S. as a democracy I want to reach out through the ether and rip their tongue out.
The progressive movement does not acknowledge the Federalist Papers or the constitutional limits on legislation.
The founders acknowledged that electing a person to power would unleash his ambitions. They wrote the Constitution to limit his power to fulfill his ambitions.
The Progressive Socialist Movement proffers the notion that man has improved since the founders checked ambitions by limiting government powers over the citizens. They believe there is no need to limit government powers because man can be trusted to check his ambitions on his own.
People who accept that will believe all manner of nonsense.
Which will mean that three or four states will control who is elected president.
Democracy= majority rule. ie: two wolves and a sheep deciding on a dinner menu.