[Apple Pan Dowdy]

Well you do have a point here..... but this is the exact reason that the founders feared a true democracy. If you leave it up to the majority (masses of stupidity)to make major decisions, then those decisions will be bad and based on the "logic" of the masses.... greed, envy to name a few, rather than on real logic.

[Austin Willard Wright]

The founders were worried about the masses to be sure. The were equally worried, however, about the power of unchecked political elites. Given a choice, I'll cast my lot with the masses.