Rather than arguing whether or not democracy is "technically stable", wouldn't it be more useful to argue whether or not the United States is really a democracy?
In a democracy, "supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation usually involving periodically held free elections" (Webster.com).
Again, according to Webster, an oligarchy is a government in which a small group exercises control especially for corrupt and selfish purposes.
Given the number of folks in this thread arguing that we primarily went to war just to line the pocket books of GWB's cronies, I'm surprised those same folks aren't arguing that we really don't have a democracy at all. Rather, we have an oligarchy.
