looks like the looney right in the US agrees with you ben:
"Democracy is Destroying the US
The idea that conceived America was freedom and liberty, not democracy, although you'd never know it by listening to the average American today or the political leaders who occupy foreign lands in order to "spread democracy".
Most of the fathers of the constitution believed democracy was the biggest threat to it, and endeavored to prevent it, but the flaw was that their constitution still conformed to it.
Any constitution is insufficient to restrict the scope of a government operating under the democratic principle. The problem is precisely that democracy, or the democratic republic, defined as the system of elected representative who don't 'own' government or have any stake in it beyond their short stint, is at odds with freedom and corrupts the electorate.
Democracy has taken on an idealistic form that has replaced classical liberalism as a goal - not merely a technical form of government but as an end unto itself.
And now many Americans are realizing something is very wrong with their country - which is good to see. But because they have such a limited understanding in what the original founders of America created and have had so much propaganda fed to them their whole lives through the government run education system and the mass media which is almost completely in bed with the government, they continue to reach flawed conclusions."
