[Woahhs]

Expressions of incredulity are not an explaination. What's so baffling about not wanting policy dictated by the mob?

[Viva Le Dissention]

Ya'll lost that when you went and tinkered with the constitution and out popped the 17th Amendment.

So which is worse--policy dictated by the mob--which, incidentally, is still subject to check by the judiciary (in theory, at least), or policy dictated by a authoritarian leader who does not subject himself to a meaningful election?

On second thought, Il Duce wasn't so bad?...