"Are you against democracy?"
I SURE AS HELL AM! As were our Founding Fathers.
We are NOT a democracy! We are a constitutional republic which protects individual rights and liberties from the "tyranny of the majority." We are a Republic, with democratically elected officials.
Oh please, let's not quibble about democracy meaning Athenian direct democracy, and republic meaning representative democracy. In any case, I was asking the previous poster if he was against the democratic process.
Because, you know, that's kind of the whole reason this country was founded. And why we're over there in Iraq.
"... governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed."
You can nit-pick over the distinctions between democracy as defined in the late 18th century and as defined today, or over the imagined distinction between a democracy and a republic, but the fundamental point is right there, and it's democracy. However many mediators, however many safeguards and limits and roadblocks, the people are the ultimate and final sovereign.