> This is not what democracy is. Democracy is mainly about one thing: Being able to remove people from office you dislike. This is absurd and wrong on its face

> This is not what democracy is. Democracy is mainly about one thing: Being able to remove people from office you dislike. This is absurd and wrong on its face if you take the word “democracy” even a little literally, which you should even if only for the theoretical exercise. Democracy roughly means that the people govern. But now you’ve said that it is “mainly” about removing someone else from governance. Huh? Something doesn’t seem right here. This is of course “representative democracy”, or roughly “elite(-driven) democracy”; a sort of governance where the elites jocky for power (as per usual), present to the rest of the population who they may vote for (every two years or so), and then the general population goes back to their private (non-political) affairs. And this according to some people is something that we are supposed to be grateful for. What a sham.