I think to see how much of a democracy we are, refer to Alexis Tocqueville’s take on tyranny of the majority. He wrote about it in the early 1800’s. He wasn’t so concerned of a majority party being tyrannical, he was more concerned of the tyranny of the majority based on a minority of special interests.
The founding fathers were also fearful of tyranny of majority, which is why they setup a Constitutional representative republic, with 3 parties, who check and balance each other to make sure that all laws follow the constitution. Unfortunatally, we stopped following the constitution and now have 2 parties, where for 4–8 years, one party screws many things up, leaving people begging for the other party to “fix the problems” which usually leads to more problems. The only winners are the special interests and corporations.
I am a Ron Paul supporter because I feel we need to identify the problem before we offer solutions and in my opinion all the problems we are facing, stem from one problem and one problem only… We stopped following the constitution.