I have to admit I read this as "democracy a planned commodity of the future" and promptly imagined some sort of 1984-esque (post-)dystopian universe with... an

I have to admit I read this as "democracy a planned commodity of the future" and promptly imagined some sort of 1984-esque (post-)dystopian universe with... an altogether depressing quantity of tropes taken directly from the present day real world :/