Why do we let anyone get away with calling us a “democracy”? Democracies always fail, because it allows a minority to over rule the majority, and the majority to over rule the minority. Examples, the few minority offended by religious displays in public, on the other side the majority demanding that an individual watch his/her body fat. Democracy's end in totalitarianism.
We are a democratic REPUBLIC. Yet D.C. has far over reached their jurisdiction abetted by weak governors and state houses that cede their authority to Washington jocking for a place at the Federal troth .
As far as I know, so far, no one has agreed to be governed by anything other than the Constitution of the United States. Now there is a throw the bums out attitude towards any politician who doesn't remember that fact.
Emma Lazarus, who wrote “The New Colossus” (a poem inspired by the Statue of Liberty) was of a Jewish background, though nonreligious herself. When the plight of the Jews is considered, a generally fair dealing and industrious people who find themselves frequently out of favor for no good reason in various places across the globe, then the point of view of “The New Colossus” comes into clearer focus. Emma probably didn’t envision the day when bum-ocracies would encourage their bums to come to America.