The elites are people

They are?

Just saying "we need more Democracy, this isn't true Democracy because we don't have the power" is like a warped No True Scotsman fallacy.

Whether or not a system is democratic is empirically testable. To what extent do government policies reflect the will of the population? Based on that, I assert that Western countries are rather undemocratic.

If you don't think we have real Democracy then I want to know your measurable qualifiers so I can agree or disagree. I assumed you meant Immediate Direct Democracy.

That's not very practical, is it, except on a very local level.

I have no solution. My argument is only that our problems, and I think we can agree on what they are, stem not of too much democracy, but of too little - as 'the people' are on our side when it comes to these matters.