> Does the concept have to change, or the democracy? From where I sit, no one's party or idea does matter, it is all theater. I was responding to what I though

> Does the concept have to change, or the democracy? From where I sit, no one's party or idea does matter, it is all theater. I was responding to what I thought was a conception of democracy as "majority rules", which is a simplistic and dangerous notion of democracy. What you are describing is something I do not understand. For example, how is Education Secretary Betsy Devos' advocacy for for-profit charter schools and vouchers not a direct representation of the ideas held by a large majority in her party?