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I don't support pure democracy which does not even exist given many systems are influenced by what is possible. When talking about things like the electoral college I get so annoyed at folks that refuse to acknowledge how much influence the capabilities of the time in voting mattered. The whole system had to be state by state and locality by locality with limited ability to check the veracity of any particular localities. It requires a certain amount of trust. Unless you have a mind linked collective like the borg the democracy you are suggesting is not really possible.

I certainly believe in a liberal democracy where the democracy is limited by human rights. So the democracy does not decide if they want to harm me but if its acceptable to harm people to begin with.

After that there are seperation of powers so that if its decided that harming folks in general I still have a chance of the it not being implemented on me by any particular authority. That type of government allows you to support the general system but not the particular implemenatation. For example in the us when it comes to the constitution I generally like it but feel it could be improved and feel it has a horrible leftover remnant of allowing slavery.

In addition due to a variety of supreme court decisions I think some things need to be specified either in the document or in laws passed by congress. There are many congressional laws I do not agree with.

The executive of the country is not following the countries laws so I now use my right to protest and do not support the executive.