[Bancakes]

Democracy is doing just fine. Anyone can vote, fool or laureate. That's democracy, and nothing more.

[the_only_law]

How much longer can that keep up until we see some sort of strange Balkanization and increased secretarian violence.

I don’t see how we can keep up the facade of a united nation where more or less two factions bubble up that are clearly opposed along irredeemable lines (personally I believe there are more than two factions but they tend to bubble up and ally into just two in a way that makes differentiation basically meaningless)

[Bancakes]

I think the USA's current opponent are lobbying corporations, not terrorists or domestic insurgence.

[anotha1]

True, you are correct, democracy specifies no specific outcome.

However, my comment should have read "bad for the outcomes of a democracy."