[marssaxman]

Someone remarked recently that the Democratic Party's fatal flaw is that it is not really a democratic organization, and this author's experience seems to support that idea.

[InitialLastName]

One can go further:

- The Democratic party is the one that wants to reduce the use of electoral politics (i.e. democracy) for policymaking

- The Republican party is the one that wants to reduce the scope of the commonly-held institutions that execute policy (i.e. the republic)