&gt; Democracy doesn&#x27;t mean &quot;things I like.&quot; It often means &quot;things the average voter likes.&quot;<p>That seems like a misrepresentation of the post.  jrandomh didn&#x27;t say &quot;this is undemocratic&quot;, but rather (paraphrasing) &quot;this generates ill will&quot;.  Hoping that mass ill will will (not a typo …) lead to change is not anti-democratic; it is exactly the <i>idea</i> of democracy.