Thank God the USA is a Republic and not a Democracy, so the people can't decide to throw their freedom away. In a country ruled by law instead of the will of the mob, rights are inalienable and cannot be sacrificed even voluntarily.
India is a Republic and also a Democracy, and thank God for that. Here one individual does not decide the law, and yet ones rights are as much inalienable and there is still as much freedom.
"Communism needs democracy like the human body needs oxygen." Leon Trotsky
"Democracy is indispensable to socialism. The goal of socialism is communism." - Vladimir Lenin
You can never have a revolution, in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution. - G. K. Chesterton