Democratic Government - A government governed by the whims and prejudices of the majority. Ochlocracy (government by the mob; mob rule; mobocracy).

Seneca did not say wars and tyrants were not cruel, only that a democratic government was MORE cruel.

So, what's the difference between a Republican, Democratic and Socialist FORM of government? If you don't know the difference, how do you know you have one and not another? The Founders certainly knew the difference and did their best with the Constitution to protect against a full-out democratic form of government for the United States.

The perversion Bob of Vancouver sees is really the result of our political trek from a Republican form of government through the muck of Democracy into the insanity of a Socialist form of government, which has taken better than a good hundred years. Your education and ego tell you this is not so but reality doesn’t give a hoot about education or ego.

Laus Deo,
Mason