You'd think if Joan were really that big a defender of Democracy she'd be against our government's ability to borrow twenty trillion dollars of her grandchildren's generation's money, robbing the future of 20 Trillion dollars without a single vote.

This is indeed a loss of democracy. 

Oh that's right she's a sister.  She doesn't care that much about future generations because she doesn't have her own children.

It's like a male, who doesn't get to say anything about abortions.   They don't rate a say, and neither does she.