Of course, cops are no match for the MIGHTY VOTER. When I see cops abusing someone on the street, I will no longer stop and record, I will merely smirk at them, for it is I, the MIGHTY VOTER, that actually controls the cops. And when I go cast my ballot in a few years, I will laugh in their face, for my vote has the power to fire them at once. And when the next election comes, and this law has not yet been repealed, I will know that the system is functioning perfectly fine, and it is actually our fault for not using our voting power to repeal this law.
If this fails, simply tell the cops that your taxes pay their salary. They are definitely no match for that.
Except that the politicians get to pick their voters through gerrymandering instead of the voters picking their representatives like in a proper democracy.
There are caveats. Laws that make it harder to vote a party out of power, e.g.
You are being downvoted and your comment is correct. Functioning democracy is distinct from mob rule. This notion is one of the reasons why rights such as the right to a public trial without unnecessary delay, the right to a lawyer, the right to an impartial jury, and the right to know who your accusers are and the nature of the charges and evidence against you were codified in the Constitution
You lost all those rights under the Patriot Act.
You make a weak case for representative democracies while ignoring the police killing part. Where does that fit in?
I'm just stating the obvious: this law has nothing to do with dictatorship.
Democracy should produce an acceptable result in the end, but in the short term allows terrible things to happen. I guess that is worrying, as we can't always wait for things to get better, the terrible thing might kill us before then.
> Democracy should produce an acceptable result in the end
Unfortunately, that is not a given.
The outcomes of the democratic process include a dictatorship system. See the NSDAP election.