[WayneS]

Further, you cannot even claim to support democracy if you want to end the direct election of United States Senators, enabled by the Seventeenth Amendment. And there are thousands of Tea Partiers who along with Cong. Ron Paul want to rescind the Seventeenth Amendment, all in the name of “states’ rights.”

Actually, I do not claim to support "democracy" - I claim to, and DO, support representative democracy, or a republican form of government.

This country was not founded as a democracy; it was founded as a Republic, and our founders knew what they were doing when they did not include direct election of U.S. senators in the original Constitution.

[tanknetter]

Absolutely.

Want to make this guy’s head explode? Tell him that a great example of pure “democratic” expression is ... Prop 8.

Watch how fast he runs away and towards the least “democratic” (by intent and design) institution established by the Constitution: the Supreme Court.