[leppr]

> A democracy is just government by its people.

In theory yes that's what Democracy originally meant.

In practice the "democracies" we know are "government by some group of popular noblemen" not by "its people".

[SllX]

Dunno about South Korea or your government, but that’s short selling all the democracies that give a wide variety of people enough rope to hang all their neighbors and then themselves with. My envelope of ballots are often 3 or 4 pages front and back, mostly offices to be filled but generally a good stack of ballot initiatives to go with them, covering two or three elections. Sometimes twice a year.

And that’s just the electoral process. Self-government extends far beyond the ballot box.