[jessejmc]

The United States is not a democracy, it is a republic. Democracy is mob rule and is something the founding fathers were very much against.

[balding_n_tired]

Ochlocracy is mob rule. As for democracy, it depends very much on which founding father you choose..

[rgrieselhuber]

That's funny, because the countries highest on the Democracy Index seem anything but governed by mob rule.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Index

[yummyfajitas]

The democracy index does not measure democracy. It measures a weighted average of electoral process/pluralism, civil liberties, functioning of government, political participation and political culture.

A true measure of how democratic a nation is would exclude civil liberties, functioning of government and political culture.