Exactly! Democracy is a process used to encourage deliberation - it's a means rather than an ends. That's why we have a constitution, three branches of governm

Exactly! Democracy is a process used to encourage deliberation - it's a means rather than an ends. That's why we have a constitution, three branches of government, an electoral college for the executive, and had indirectly elected senators. It was all to force deliberation and buy enough time for saner minds to prevail through the moral panics of the day. The system is broken because the process was corrupted decades ago with the greatest of intentions.