well, we can all define democracy, or what a "democratic fashion" is, in different ways, unfortunately... we certainly have to acknowledge the obvious, that bush won the election, but we don't have to go along with the program...do we?
from the gut, i wouldn't cross a picket line, but that would be without thinking, and simply operating from the gut...not the best way to exercise "democratic fashion"...
but if i knew that the pickets were representing, say ( now i have to find a demon-image suitable for this group), um, saddam... or milosevic...or the fundamentalist christian right...or anti-choice, etc... would i still?
too much individualism is a curse, but too much submission to authority, without checking it out, is just as bad...
a real dilemma, not easily reduced to a slogan, or an email post...
fs