alt Hacker NewsDemocracy is the process by which people are conned into 'giving up their rights.' People go about voting themselves other people's life, liberty, and property all under the scam that because the majority says it's ok that it is.
The victims -- conned that because they 'voted' they are part of the 'people' who make up the government and they've only done it to themselves.
You could avoid that by having a government with limited powers - limited enough that the voters could not use those powers to seize others' rights and property.
We had an imperfect, but still pretty good, example of that. Had. It's been eroding for a while now. But it's eroded the fastest under the current administration, which has tried very hard to overrun all the limits on power, and has succeeded far too often for me.