But this is not the democratic process! "choosing" among candidates(as infrequently as every four years) that have already been prescreened by the elites is not

But this is not the democratic process! "choosing" among candidates(as infrequently as every four years) that have already been prescreened by the elites is not democracy. It's an absurd system, I reject it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_democracy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_democracy