Democracy: Deagogue Or Demagogy?

The answer I have to offer here is two fold:
First, Americans today are easily and frequently offended. and Second, America today is not a democracy, it is a demagogy.
Demagogy simply means: “Ruled by a demagogue or demagogues” where a demagogue is defined as:
“a political agitator who appeals with crude oratory to the prejudice and passions of the mob.”; and America, with its three hundred million strong; media addicted population, comes fully equipped with its own massive, prejudiced and passionate mob.
Hyper-sensitivity runs in our blood. There is a perennial “Well, I never…!” ringing through the very puritanical American psyche.
We all tend to despise those who don’t think like us, and we clamor towards those who share our thoughts and
It is a social phenomenon that goes back to ancient times. It was rampant in the late Roman Republic when the empire devolved into a jumble of conflicting political alliances that had nothing to do with political philosophy and everything to do with popularity and people-pleasing. All that an aspiring demagogue had to do to gain power was to appeal to a particular social group’s biases and prejudices, and then promise to make their dreams a reality.
“You want to eat but not have to work? You got
This is a necessary evil in any free society. My thoughts concerning your actions should never be allowed to impinge on those actions, because that would result in a loss of liberty for you with no increase in liberty for me. My only benefit would be the satisfaction with seeing you lose your liberty to offend me.
Why would I want to see you lose your liberty? This question lies at the root of intolerance.
How others choose to live their lives is their own business, not ours. When we become uncomfortable with the behavior of others, we often choose to blame them rather than to blame our own lack of self-assurance. Although no real harm can come from their actions, we feel threatened by them and we retaliate, preferring our own comfort to their liberty. This, my friends, is the real source of the hatred and intolerance that is sweeping the nation.
• We must become strong enough to exercise social tolerance.
Tolerance is the great virtue of a free society. It is the mindset and social viewpoint of the truly free