The will of the people

So in my opinion, I think that the government should take the concern of people into mind but then do what they believe to be best. The founding fathers did not set up a direct democracy. They argued that it would be mob rule and bad for the country as a whole. However, it is argued that this country has expanded into a democracy through time. The will of the people does not take into account minority views. The whole basis of the reason that the founding fathers did not set up a minority because they knew that only the majority would be satisfied. However, I would like to put forward the argument that President Bush has been steadily making the Office of the Presidency into a dictatorship. With many of the laws he has enacted since the start of his presidency, such as the PATRIOT Act, President Bush has expanded the power of that office to a power greater than that of any other president. This then begins to beg the question; is it better to have mob rule or a dictatorship? In this case it would be better to have mob rule. In the case of mob rule, it is much easier to change the government. As the power of the presidency is increased each President that comes next will have to be increasingly careful to make sure that we do not end up as a totalitarian state. The best form of government would be to have a government that is in between a totalitarian dictatorship and mob rule. That way you would have the balance of knowledge of what the people want versus the knowledge that governs the people. This can be used as a system of checks and balances by acknowledging the people but also defending them from themselves. This way all people, in theory, will get what they want, if it is deemed to be good, and no single group will be discriminated against. This is the ideal theory but not the reality, seeing as how America is leaning further toward a dictatorship with the facade of a democracy.