Democracydepends on how you define the demos: now it's all the adults, but it was not this way originally. The demos was, in the Ancient Greece, the free elite

Democracydepends on how you define the demos: now it's all the adults, but it was not this way originally. The demos was, in the Ancient Greece, the free elite. A parallel thing today could kind-of be to let vote only uni graduates. Plato classifies democracy as the least effective political system when it's good and the least worst whenit's corrupt (Politikos 302b-303c), and I think that's sort if a nice trade off, but functions better when fake religions like nationalism and patriotism are not around and the countries are smaller.