Two things: One, it's so sad that this country was founded by relatively intelligent people that had radical ideas and revolution in their heart; which has now

Two things: One, it's so sad that this country was founded by relatively intelligent people that had radical ideas and revolution in their heart; which has now all but died as we are a dogmatic, stupid, static nation and society with a two party, default winner system. Two, calling our founding political system a modern democracy, or even really a democracy, is rather absurd considering it was a bunch of genocidal racist, sexist, drunkard, elitists that constructed it. By that measure, non-absolute monarchies are also democracies as they relied on the input and votes of their aristocratic classes. We essentially, even now, still live in a system that is far more aristocracy than democracy. Plutarchy is probably even more accurate. we are a democracy in theory, in practice, we are far from it. Maybe you express one of the earliest examples of the seemingly common American affliction to believe that something is such just based on the label. We delusionally like to call things what we want them to be rather than what they are. Probably has to do with our affinity for the superstitious and supernatural.