Democracy, the way the intelligent Greeks originally devised it, was a brilliant idea. Allow the smart people of a close knit unified collective of one people to discuss and sway each other with reasonable discussion and have the best of a city-state establish rules and rulers through merit. American Democracy, however, is a system of bussing in as many rubes as possible, feeding them lies laced with gibs and appealing to womanly "My team over the good of people", and flood ballot boxes with no room for good and personal discussions of the direction of the way history will flow. And then once a certain team is elected, have the public face of a team pick and choose unelected paid off positions to establish rules that way to protect the interests of handlers.