What you can't say: True democracy doesn't have elections. In fact already the ancient greek knew: “It is accepted as democratic when public offices are allocat

What you can't say: True democracy doesn't have elections. In fact already the ancient greek knew: “It is accepted as democratic when public offices are allocated by lot; and as oligarchic when they are filled by election” (Aristotle, Politics), see also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition)