Quote Originally Posted by RadioGod View Post
That "mob", being the people. Whatever happened to by the people, of the people, for the people?
The Founders explained it and did not give us a democracy because they feared and hated it.

Can you imagine getting, what, 230M adults in the US to vote on everything mundane and great? How many would not understand, or bother to understand the issues at hand? They may not have time in their lives to devote that amount of time to participate.