Democracy leading to non-democracy isn't the irony i was talking about. The irony is in an institution that has enormous power in our system complaining that g

Democracy leading to non-democracy isn't the irony i was talking about. The irony is in an institution that has enormous power in our system complaining that giving the little people a chance to speak up is somehow undermining the ability of those little people to self-govern. Edit: In other words, social media may not be perfectly representative of the people's will, but it's almost certainly more so than what comes out of something like the atlantic. On top of that, you could argue that social media diminishes the power of an institution like the atlantic. That is the irony.