The concept of "democracy" IS the matrix.
Democracy claims to offer you freedom, but in reality democracy rarely votes in your favor, and instead forces you to use and pay for things you don't want, didn't ask for, and often tinged you oppose. Democracy behaves just life a tyrannical dictatorship.
Democracy is nothing more than a matrix that those in power use to convince you that you are "free" when the truth is you're not free, but instead your are subject to their immoral and reasonable laws and regulations.
Unalienable rights and individual free agency are the true liberators.