

Lukewarm take: modern democracy is a failure, in its own objective of giving the people political power. Giving everyone, regardless of qualification, a political voice does not work unless they also undergo extensive education in politics, philosophy and class consciousness.
It also requires that the available sources of information be rational, objective and unbiased, something impossible for private mass media.
So, in reality we end up where we are: vast swathes of unqualified and apathetic voters who the ruling class can herd into the desired electoral outcome; manipulated by lies and fear to vote against their own interests.
TLDR: Democracy only works as advertised when the rich are specifically and fully excluded from the process and the resources necessary to influence the outcome.




You are literally describing why our current form of democracy doesnt work. A select few are able to game the system by virtue of owning private media empires, and the only outcome is eventual, violent change.