Re: true democracy
"True democracy should (arguably?) give everyone an equal voice"
Maybe that's why democracies don't scale. At all. And notably come to bad ends. And the US was explicitly designed not to be a democracy.
"Arguably"? :) Yeah, would we want a 5 year old to have equal voice in policy?
But you've laid out some basic objections to the US's First Amendment. Anti-First Amendment is certainly the most natural, intuitive, and easy side to take. Same could be said for others of the Bill of Rights. Or, why it's hard to run an American style government. Doesn't come natural. Lotta training and tools and culture needed.
Anyway, it's unfortunate that the words "loss of democracy" have been down-cycled to mean "loss of the next election".
Biting the hand that feeds IT
