Democracy is when the people can replace the government if they don&#x27;t like the way it governs.  <i>What we&#x27;re seeing in Europe and the US these days is that government is trying to replace the people because it doesn&#x27;t like the way they vote.</i>  The unfettered-immigration and amnesty-for-illegals movements on both continents are direct attacks on democracy by governments that think they can get more money or power with a different set of voters.  I don&#x27;t know if anything quite like this has happened before... did the Greeks even have a word for it?