> However, I think this is a weak understanding of what democracy means.
> Democracy as voting is likely more conservative in the US (with
> exceptions), but democracy in terms of people pushing for change in
> the street has had some effect (the teabaggers being no exception to
> this rule).
But what does that have to do with democracy (which, as the demon Screwtape noted, "is properly the name of a political system, even a system of voting")? Angry mobs could play influential roles in shaping public policy in ancient Rome, medieval Europe, etc.
-- "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen lytlað."