Now you can see why "truthie" has to rely on corny copy and paste videos
"51.9 per cent of those voting supported leaving the EU. Yet the British Parliament says FU to their voters. Why pretend this is democracy?" and that is not implying "the majority will expressed by vote is sacred and worthy of utmost respect?"
Now I see the claim "we are not a democracy but a Constitutional Republic" has been exchanged for we are now a "Republic of States," just as equally lame. Fact is the US is a Democratic Republic, we elect our leaders democratically to represent us in republican form of Gov't..
And the Founding Fathers bit is amusing, the major reason they instituted the electoral college is because they didn't trust the people:
It was equally desirable, that the immediate election should be made by men most capable of analyzing the qualities adapted to the station, and acting under circumstances favorable to deliberation, and to a judicious combination of all the reasons and inducements which were proper to govern their choice. A small number of persons, selected by their fellow-citizens from the general mass, will be most likely to possess the information and discernment requisite to such complicated investigations. It was also peculiarly desirable to afford as little opportunity as possible to tumult and disorder. This evil was not least to be dreaded in the election of a magistrate, who was to have so important an agency in the administration of the government as the President of the United States. But the precautions which have been so happily concerted in the system under consideration, promise an effectual security against this mischief.
- Hamilton, Federalist Papers
