“A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.” —Thomas Jefferson
“Democracy is indispensable to socialism... The goal of socialism is communism... Hatred is the basis of communism.” —Vladimir Lenin
Bump.
That’s a pure classical democracy. But democracy as used commonly refers to a democratic republic where public policy is ultimately decided by the people and/or their elected representatives. The late Justice Scalia used the term “American democracy” often in that context.