This is not democracy – it’s fraud.
Democracy relies on strict moral principles, but ethics in politics disappeared a long time ago. Anyone today still believing in a textbook definition of democracy (in which the realities of the 21st-century human condition are conveniently overlooked) is either excessively naive or a subliminal anarchist.
Those who advocate democracy and one-sidedly laud its qualities are misleading people through “dupocracy”, and therein lies the root of democracy’s possible demise.
John Shepherd