Well, I wouldn&#x27;t put much emphasis on &quot;democratically elected government&quot;.<p>Between gerrymandering, faulty or &quot;faulty&quot; voting machines, modern campaign practices that require millions of dollars to run and stick your &quot;branding&quot; to the minds of voters, 
and even more important, a system that pretty much guarantees no-one can rise to validly compete grass-roots unless they belong to the two parties -- it&#x27;s nothing to write home about.<p>That a 200+ year old document is held as some kind of &quot;holy scripture&quot; of governance and that centuries old dead statesmen are seen in a romantic light as &quot;founding fathers&quot; and guiding spirits (paternalism much?), is even less indicating of a rational modern democracy.