@BlueCollarCritic - The USA is a Democratic Republic, and has been since the Constitution was written.
The "Republic" part is the representatives that speak for us in Washington, and the "Democratic" part is where each of the citizens can vote for their representative.
I think the last true democracy was ancient Greece. A true democracy is when every citizen votes for everything that needs to be decided. Obviously that is unworkable in a big country.
Your example makes it sound like you think democracy is a bad thing. I think it's served us pretty well for the last couple hundred years.
Democracy goes bad when the true intentions of the politicians are hidden from view by a complicit media, which has taken sides in the political debate of ideas.
Fortunately, this election season has seen the ascendancy of an informed and motivated electorate, who is unwilling to allow a "ruling class" (consisting of members of both political parties) to alter the face of the country into a distorted version of Europe.
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