nice cartoon

the problem is that Americans define democracy as "majority rule." But that is not democracy. Democracy is everybody has a say, everyone has equal rights, everyone is involved, government is by consensus. Anglo-American "democracy" is proto-democracy. A half-step up from Napolean's "Liberal Empire" (you choose me and I make the rules), not much different, in fact, from the government of the Holy Roman Empire. The governments of continental Europe got it right, we need to catch up.