Democracy means rule by the people. In a democracy people vote on laws and they come into effect. In America people vote on politicians who make promises and then do something different when they get elected, or sometimes rarely people get to vote on laws and a judge rejects the law and thus it doesn't get passed. Representative Democracy is neither representative nor is it democracy, it's Elective Dictatorship and the answer to elective dictatorship isn't nonelective dictatorship it's democracy.