A Democracy is.........

I just saw a bumper sticker reading, "A democracy is measured by the rights you afford dissidents, not by the rights you afford assimilated conformists," and it was made by a woman named "Abbie Hoffman," and I am not sure who she is.

The problem is, she's wrong; a democracy is measured by the rights you afford to everyone, for if a democracy afforded rights only to its dissidents and not its "assimilated conformists," which I guess is a euphemism for "people who agree," then you would have a totalitarian regime, the kind you have in the West Bank or the Gaza Strip with the dissident Hamas running amok.