Let me correct Senator Reid’s statement to reflect what he is really thinking behind those glasses:
“If they’re Patriots. I am in Big Trouble.”
Harry and his ilk require We, the People, to become totally passive and take no part in level of government. They require us to behave like medieval serfs immediately doing what ever nobles (politicians) and church (the media) say while having no chance at “hope and change” to improve themselves.
Hate to tell harry, that ain’t going to happen pilgrim.
It's not the process of the people voting that upsets Harry Reid and his ilk. It's limitations on gov't power that upsets him. He can live with the people voting, as long as it's for masters rather than public servants. We need to restore limited gov't that cannot infringe our rights.
Classical Athens had a pure democracy for the citizens, but it had absolute power. No rights were safe from the vote of the assembly.
Individual rights, safe from gov't infringement, is the crucial element which our ancestors added to the idea of gov't by the people.