The founding fathers knew from history that democracy is a stepping stone to a totalitarianism form of government. That is why the system of government they put in place, Constitutional Republic was called the great or grand experiment. Humanity clearly isn't able to govern it's own "moral" choices. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. Our specific constitution placed limits three very specific branches. Those branches were to all serve the Constitution then the majority. Our Congress, by not funding the workings of the government is absolutely not doing its job. All the Republicans vote for funding it, most of the Democrats are not. This is solely their shutdown because of that. Trump has been working non stop to remove the unelected bureaucrats which are free to act outside the conversation and therefore don't belong in our government. The Democrats are saying "we know this is hurting people but this is all the power we have".
