East Germany was only called "democratic republic", in reality it was neither. The fault isn't within those terms; the fault was that calling it that way was si

East Germany was only called "democratic republic", in reality it was neither. The fault isn't within those terms; the fault was that calling it that way was simply a lie. You also ask: "Why should individual sovereignty be forfeit in favor of the group sovereignty that is democracy?" Because we want to agree on certain things. Human societies have evolutionary advantage over independent sets of humans.