Well, that's why democracy must be limited by individual rights. Remember, an unlimited democracy voted Socrates to die when it ordered him drink hemlock. It wa

Well, that's why democracy must be limited by individual rights. Remember, an unlimited democracy voted Socrates to die when it ordered him drink hemlock. It was his punishment for "corrupting" the youths of Athens. America was founded as a republic limited by a constitution, and it existed that way for a long time. It wasn't an unachieved pie-in-the-sky wonderland (nor was it perfect: I think the civil war was a just and necessary war). You can make this world better. It's just a matter of understanding things well enough to argue rationally for the right thing. After all, how did the Rennaisance happen, or the American revolution? The people that lived then were just like you and I in this respect, and they didn't even have the benefit of the Internet to communicate.