Democracy is not just voting, it also gives you possibly to put forward proposals and candidate for leading roles. As other commenter said, you can always exit

Democracy is not just voting, it also gives you possibly to put forward proposals and candidate for leading roles. As other commenter said, you can always exit. But democracy gives you explicit right to change things (albeit no bigger than to other people in the organization), which is actually a more efficient method of introducing change than fatalistically wait until the dysfunctional organization dies.