User blog comment:Semanticdrifter/Digital Protest Against the FISA Improvements Act/@comment-24476644-20140205115225/@comment-1038387-20140205143210

The people have the right to throw out the governemt - in the next election.

Democracy doesn't mean "the country is ruled by whoever mounts the biggest shout fest". It's "the people elect the biggest shouters from their midst every four (or five, or six, or whatever) years, and then have to accept that they won't do a single thing they promised for that period of time."