Drivel.

Democracy has never really existed except as an ideology. Policies and actions have always been decided by the sword and wealth.

It's the tyranny of the few over the gullible and ignorant majority. Take the republic of the US.

Every four years there's a huge performative circus show to choose between one aging old git and another.

But little changes fundamentally with whose butt farts in the White House.

But the population has been given the massive show, providing entertainment for the population. Then comes disappointment, then ramping up hope that next time the arseholes will do more for "me".