You setup a straw man with a loaded fabrication. No, democracy was not sacrificed at all. There will be another vote, with a now far better informed population.
A lot of posters here have a very strange sense of "free speech" as well. The notion of free speech that the US was founded on was freedom from retribution from the government. That's it. It was not that you were free from consequences from fellow citizens that don't like your speech, nor does it imply that there cannot be laws requiring opportunity for political candidates to equally inform the public.
Ironically, the US will no longer have the original notion of free speech come January, and has long had a very broken democratic system where candidates have no notion of equal air time at all.
A lot of posters here have a very strange sense of "free speech" as well. The notion of free speech that the US was founded on was freedom from retribution from the government. That's it. It was not that you were free from consequences from fellow citizens that don't like your speech, nor does it imply that there cannot be laws requiring opportunity for political candidates to equally inform the public.
Ironically, the US will no longer have the original notion of free speech come January, and has long had a very broken democratic system where candidates have no notion of equal air time at all.