Comment by AlecSchueler

> We have democratically rejected democracy.

That sounds like an assurance given by the people in power to make people feel better about losing their freedoms.

> That's what most people mean when they say "<x> electorate are not good stewards of democracy."

Is it? I can't say I've heard a lot of people using that phrase so I'm surprised you would be able to split it up into what most people do and don't mean by it. The person above meant that the US had traditionally positioned itself as a nation that would fight for things like freedom of expression and the rights of people and enterprise to do their own thing, but that recently they had failed to perform this function for themselves.