[kb2614]

Good, because we’re not a ‘Democracy’. We are, or were, a Constitutional Republic.

We are an Oligarchy now, sadly.

[Alberta's Child]

Interestingly, the U.S. was designed to be an oligarchy — and the founders of this nation were the new North American aristocracy.

You’ll never convince me that men like Washington, Jefferson and Madison ever intended to establish a system of “democratic” government in which their own interests could be undermined by the votes of their hired help.

That’s why the only election mentioned in the U.S. Constitution is the indirect election of the President by electors who are appointed through acts of state legislatures.