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… for delaying a $40 billion Ukraine aid package by one week, calling the move “repugnant” and predicting the legislation will pass the Senate Thursday.
“This should already have been done and over with, but it is repugnant that one member of the other side, the junior senator from Kentucky, chose to make a show and obstruct Ukraine funding,” Schumer said on the Senate floor.
“For Sen. Paul to delay it for purely political motives is to strengthen Putin’s hand,” he added, noting, “the vast majority of Republicans want to see this legislation done.”
Paul objected to passing the …

… a republic are: first, the delegation of the government, in the latter, to a small number of citizens elected by the rest; secondly, the greater number of citizens, and greater sphere of country, over which the latter may be extended.
The effect of the first difference is, on the one hand, to refine and enlarge the public views, by passing them through the medium of a chosen body of citizens, whose wisdom may best discern the true interest of their country, and whose patriotism and love of justice will be least likely to sacrifice it to temporary or partial considerations …

… between ‘arithmetic’ and ‘geometric’ (i.e. proportional) equality.
In 399 BC, Socrates himself was put on trial and executed for “corrupting the young and believing in strange gods”.
His death gave Europe one of the first intellectual martyrs still recorded, but guaranteed democracy an eternity of bad press at the hands of his disciple and enemy to democracy, Plato. From Socrates’ arguments at his trial, Loren Samons writes, “It follows, of course, that any majority—including the majority of jurors—is unlikely to choose rightly.”
While Plato blamed democracy for killing Socrates, his criticisms of the rule of the demos …

… and change laws that govern the people rather than getting to vote directly on the laws themselves. – National Geographic
No. That is called a republic. A system where politicians are elected and represent the voting public is called a republic.
Voting and Vote Counting
The method of voting and vote counting was also amusing.
As usual in ancient democracies, one had to physically attend a gathering in order to vote. Military service or simple distance prevented the exercise of citizenship. Voting was usually by show of hands (χειροτονία, kheirotonia, ‘arm stretching’) with officials judging the outcome by sight. This could