As usual, people confuse democracy, vote, and freedom. In many coutries, we have vote. In some countries, we have a lot of freedom. But to this day, we don't h

As usual, people confuse democracy, vote, and freedom. In many coutries, we have vote. In some countries, we have a lot of freedom. But to this day, we don't have democracy in a single country. Democracy supposes that the people has the power. It's not the case in what we call democracies today. You have a small group of people getting in the election pool because of where they come from and how much money they can manipulate. Then, this small group takes most of the decisions, which is what we call an oligarchy. Voting then, is just a way to swap people from this group. In no way it puts power in the hand of the people. Quite often people opposes dictatures with our systems to justify that if they are in that state, then we are in a democracy. The fact we have a better, and confortable system doesn't make it magically fit the definition. For the people to have power, you would need them to want it in the first place. But most don't read political programs, most don't think hard about what their country should do, and most certainly don't accept any responsability for anything happening today in their country. They won't choose what they buy or whatch on TV according to the impact on the social life. Hence, elections are not bad for democracy, it's just we never manage to use them to setup a democracy in the first place. In fact, to have a democracy we would need to educate people to want it first. To make everyday's decisions by thinking about it. And to think about what society can become on a regular basis. Right now, as most of us think and act mostly for ourself, we can't achieve democracy. Democracy cannot be brought only by using a fair political system (that we don't even have), you also need citizens.