Which is why we are supposed to have a Republic, not a democracy. Until the 1930’s the US Army’s own training manuals had this to say to about democracy:
CITIZENSHIP Democracy:
A government of the masses. Authority derived through mass meeting or any other form of “direct” expression. Results in mobocracy. Attitude toward property is communistic—negating property rights. Attitude toward law is that the will of the majority shall regulate, whether is be based upon deliberation or governed by passion, prejudice, and impulse, without restraint or regard to consequences. Results in demogogism, license, agitation, discontent, anarchy
Good cite! Heck, all the way back to Aristotle they knew Democracies were horrible forms of government.
My point in this essay is that we’re ignoring the Constitution and the horrible debt of the Democrats. The founders knew this was coming. But the political class has engineered a program of ignorance, to their advantage.
Good definition. Who had that taken out of the manual?