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I guess if 'democracy = one elected man can do anything he likes', then no, very few people believe in democracy, and rightly so. Democracy requires the all branches of government, media, public discourse and checks and balances to be operating as a healthy whole. Or at least a lot better than they are now. Hoping that unelected elites will intervene is just knowing that democracy is no longer working properly and, given that, it's all that might save us.
No, "democracy" is the idea that power vests in the expressed will the people, and frankly the only politics that most people know anything about is presidential politics. With apologies to Madison, the house is not the body closest to the needs and desires of the people, because most people can't name their representative and few people vote in those elections when there isn't a presidential race to goose interest and drag lower offices along on its coattails.
The Demos, whether for cultural, material, techological, or irrational reasons has decided to place its trust in an elected hetmanate occupying the office of the President, imbuing the occupant with totemistic responsibility for just about everything, regardless of his formal ability to cause or prevent the events in question. This has been done with the connivance and acquiescence of the legislative branches, who voluntarily have surrendered most of their actual power to the executive, and have contented themselves with insider trading and playing wannabe-cable-news pundit on CSPAN.
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