Ever read Plato on democracy?
Do you think the U.S is a democracy? Or a constitutional republic?
Aristotle, Federalist and Anti-federalist Papers, The Constitution and Toqueville’s Democracy in America.
Our Founding Fathers knew the danger of a true democracy; they tried to protect us from it. The anti-federalists pushed for even greater protection of the Republic because they and Toqueville foresaw exactly the situation we are now in.
The Founding Father envisioned an informed, educated, virtuous electorate. They, as Franklin said, gave us a Republic but we, as he feared, have not kept it.