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The founding fathers distrusted democracy, and with good reason.
As long as people routinely avoid educating themselves on history, economics, and politics and gravitate toward emotional decision making, democracy is dangerous. The majority cannot be allowed to oppress the minority. This is why we are a Constitutional Representative Republic. Democracy was never the core of our government, it was the mortar used to fill the cracks; the Constitution is the steel reinforcement, and Representatives are the bricks who act as a filter and brake on the emotionality of mob rule.
Of course that's all been corrupted now, the constituency used to be all relatively educated (for the time) white male landowners, which meant they had a lot in common, they weren't easily divided and conquered over nonsense like we are today. The constituency has been expanded to include a great many more people with opposing cultural values, differing time preferences, differing levels of loyalty to the country, differing levels of emotional shackling, and differing levels of understanding regarding government, history, and economics. Of course, the left thinks all people are interchangeable cogs, exactly the same and so more people is irrelevant. But that's never been true and never will be.
This 'diversity' results in a much more divisive, chaotic system, where tribal factions are easily turned against each other, which makes democracy even more dangerous since people now vote against their own best interests on the promise of getting 'free' stuff from the state or will vote to attack their fellow citizens out of jealousy. The state doesn't have anything, it takes everything from the people, and myopic dunces living on welfare and EBT who don't understand that still get to vote for 'free stuff' with the same veracity as a successful entrepreneur or a statistician or an economic scholar or a historian or an engineer or a doctor gets to vote.
The mob's emotional waves are manipulated and ridden into office by politicians rather than mitigated. The culturally and economically toxic combination of greed and laziness is encouraged in the lower class to expand the voter base for the socialist party. A certain minority uses the grotesque power of the state to control, gaslight, propagandize, and oppress the majority. Since 1971 the federal state has expanded in power and size at a cancerous rate, all thanks to leaving the last vestiges of the gold standard. And there's no end in sight short of the collapse of the USD as the world's reserve currency, a situation our federal government effectively conned the world into.
All of this is thanks to democracy. This country was meant to be a confederation of strong states held together by a relatively weak federal government. It's completely the opposite now thanks to democracy. People are voting for socialism. People are voting to disarm themselves. People are voting for policies that will turn us into the Soviet Union.
Stop buying the propaganda that democracy is what our government is based on, it's not, it was based on the constitution. Democracy is dangerous and corrosive because people are flawed, they're easily manipulated and can't even see a few years into the future. Democracy may be one of the best of the worst when it's appropriately shackled by a constitution and the constituency is relatively homogeneous and educated and has 'skin in the game' regarding the fate of the country and their state, but when you take those factors away as has been done over the last couple hundred years you create INCREDIBLE levels of DYSFUNCTION.

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