Gore Vidal Quotes on Democracy
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Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
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Congress no longer declares war or makes budgets. So that's the end of the constitution as a working machine.
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We should stop going around babbling about how we're the greatest democracy on earth, when we're not even a democracy. We are a sort of militarised republic. The founding fathers hated two things, one was monarchy and the other was democracy, they gave us a constitution that saw to it we will have neither. I don't know how wise they were.