Also, how exactly would you expect people to be able to vote on polluting a lake over the course of ten years? Sounds like that one is more of an issue with industrialization.

How is "democracy" responsible for hunters wiping out the buffalo, well before they had the technology or understanding to predict their extinction or the subsequent effects?

And how, exactly, should they have put the Waco situation, a local situation, by the way, not a national one, to vote? "Hey, people, should we force our way into the compound or not? Hurry up and vote wicked fuckin' quick!" No, their actions should have been predetermined by laws already voted on. If people don't like those laws, it is incumbent upon them to educate themselves and work to change the laws.

Sounds to me like you don't really know just what democracy is, you're just looking for another way to rebel, and shaking your fist at whatever you think America stands for is the uber-metal way to do it.

Lame lame and lame.

Don't like "democracy", then jump a flight somewhere else.