Democracy forms Communism, or is It a form of Communism?

"Democracy is the road to socialism" - Karl Marx

"Communism needs Democracy like the body needs Oxygen." - Lev Davidovich Bronstein (also known as Comrade Trotsky)

Most of the greatest theorists of Communism agree that Democracy will bring about socialization of any country and, as they said, socialism is just one step away from Communism. Here is how the process works:
1. The majority of people are stupid (or at least easily swayed by superfluous arguments which seem to favour them).
2. In Democracy the majority rules over the minority (i.e. mob rule).
3. The policies that sound simplest and easiest to implement are almost always socialistic. For example, it's easy to understand how welfare or public education might help people. It is more difficult to understand that in actual fact they do great harm.
Now we can all see that this is true not only in theory, but in practice. All countries which initially started out as liberal democracies are now (after a period of prolonged democratic rule) socialist republics. The best examples I can give are the United States and the United Kingdom. Could any one of the founding fathers (even the raging centralizer Hamilton) conceive of an American government overwhelmed largely by entitlements and welfare spending? I doubt any of them would agree (Jefferson was against the existence of public debt at all! - as should be!) this should be the case.
The best book on Democracy (by far!) that I have read is Hans-Hermann Hoppe's Democracy: The God that Failed. Read it - to say it's enlightening is an understatement.

To quote Hoppe on the relationship between communism and democracy: "Democracy has nothing to do with freedom. Democracy is a soft variant of communism, and rarely in the history of ideas has it been taken for anything else."