This country is headed for dictatorship.

[SuperDemocrat]

True fact

 

[Katzndogz]

That's the way democracies die.

 

[Delta4Embassy]

True fact

Headed? Wow, you're idealist. When democracies exceed the recommended number of representatives as defined by the Founders, it's not a functional democracy any longer because the governed don't have any say in the laws made to govern them. And when you have no say in what laws contorl your actions, what's that if not a dictatorship?

" Democracy and Optimum Population Size: 2500 years ago, Aristotle considered the best size for a city and concluded that a large increase in population would bring, "certain poverty on the citizenry, and poverty is the cause of sedition and evil." He considered that a city of over 100,000 people would exclude most citizens from a voice in government.

To get an idea of what the founders of the United States had in mind for our representative Democracy, at the low end, the Constitution says (Article 1, Section 2) that a Representative to the House should represent a minimum of 30,000 people. When the Constitution was written, the United States had a total population of around 2.5 million, and the Constitution allocated 65 Representatives to the 13 states. So each Representative of "the People's House" had about 38,500 constituents. Currently each Representative has 712,650 constituents. It's really a form of irony today to call it "the People's House" when only wealthy donors and paid lobbyists really have the ear of your "representatives." What we have now is not Democracy in the sense intended by the country's founders. "
Effects of Overpopulation on the Environment and Society HowMany.org