While a democracy bestows each citizen with a vote, it is just not true that everyone has a "roughly equal say in how things go". Power, influence and money are

While a democracy bestows each citizen with a vote, it is just not true that everyone has a "roughly equal say in how things go". Power, influence and money are all unequal. Martin Luther King had more say in "how things go" than i ever will even though we each can only cast one vote each. The authority rests in each citizen equally but power will always be unequal