What people needs to understand. Representative "Democracy" has never had anything to do with Democracy except the word it self. In advertising they know - give people a feeling of choice and not to many options. If you make cereals you make three different packages, with minor variations "light", "original", "fitness". This is the same with representative "Democracy". The established media serves your options and forces you to pick - and then makes you responsible for your own demise. STOP your participation, as long as +50% votes, this looks legitimate and "Democratic". It never was and it never will be. --- The game stops when enough people get access to objective, honest and truthful information (independent media and social media). To make informed decisions and opinions. And FED printed food stamp is not the only way of survival (un-coopted crypto that are used for transactions and are private). Then people can start participating in decision-making (democracy), preferably on a decentralized local level and to the extent centralized decisions are necessary. Voting and decision-making can take place in many forms, just look at the DAO's on blockchain. Just promote the right tools and things will slowly start to happen. Information, leverage and better alternatives.