[Constitutional Patriot]

"He was elected TWICE by a Majority."

So was Mugabe. Go back to Cuba, hack.

[SauronOfMordor]

The reason that the US was successful as a democratic Republic (NOT a democracy -- there's a big difference) is that the majority in the US were small-scale property owners (small farmers, craftsmen working out of their own shops, etc). As such, they were more interested in keeping their own property from being looted via the ballot box, than in trying to loot others

Contrast the aftermath of the French Revolution: the propertyless engaging in mass killing over who would get the loot confiscated from the nobility

Much of South America resembles 18th Century France and 19th Century Russia more than it resembles early US: you have wealthy oligarchs surrounded by numerous unskilled, uneducated, propertyless peasant-types. "Democracy" then becomes a code-word for "lets have us educated intelligensia types organize the poor into a thug army that will allow us to loot the rich"