jcast's Journal: Democracy is non-ideological?

Chris Satullo, on PressThink, has responded to criticism of his hit piece against right-wing media critics. Interesting note:

Public life going well -- could the ideological among you possibly accept that this concept does not have a shred of partisan ideological content to it? It's only ideology is democracy.

Now, is this the democratic ideology according to which it is utterly unacceptable for the legislature to pass a law the judges consider unconstitutional, or is this the democratic ideology according to which it is utterly unacceptable for judges to overturn the will of the people's duly elected representatives?

I'm a strong believer in objective truth and the objective meaning of most of the English language (can't speak to french :), but 'democracy' is one of those words, like 'liberty' or 'justice' or 'isomorphism', that must first be constructed in a particular theory (NB: theories about things political are known as 'ideologies') before you can make any useful assertions about them. Hence 'democracy' is inherently ideological.