For example, in some European countries, the majority, for better or for
> worse, was able to defy the private media and governmental mouthpieces on
> the EU constitution. This would never, ever happen in the United States.
>
It has happened in the United States, but not in a way that the organized left might prefer. Immigration springs to mind as a prominent example.
-- "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen lytlað."