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Yes unironically. In the United States for example, the immigration "reform" of the sixties, all conducted by duly elected representatives.
The proles of the boomer generation absolutely voted us into the problem we have now, for the sake of horseshit good times rhetoric about muh equal spouted by leftists like you. And now we find ourselves ruled over by corrupt foreigners gleefully pillaging our people. Because at some point we forgot that the average person isn't fit to make decisions past their own nose.
See, here's your mistake. You assume that because, under your system, someone was "duly elected", that makes it "democratic". Of course not. Why are they so much more responsive to the oligarchs who want mass immigration so they can pay less to their wage slaves, than to the demos?
Democracy means rule by the people. At the very least, that it is the preferences of the people that are enacted into law. Not that millionaires are "duly elected" and then go do whatever their corporate masters tell them to do.
You're right. The average person sure is dumb for opposing mass immigration, grooming in schools, and endless wars. Far better to be ruled by the elites (as you are), who favor all those things.
All the people who say this, think that they or people like them would be the ones 'ruling'.
Just because the people we vote in don’t do the things we want doesn’t mean democracy doesn’t exist at all.
So you think democracy means that the people in office take their marching orders from oligarchs, the wealthy, MNOs and George Soros, not the people?
Yes that's what democracy is. Corruption. Because the sole requirement to wield power is to be able to lie to morons.
Is that what currently happens? Yes. Is that what should happen? No. Democracy is still a thing even if the people who get voted in happen to be corrupt. Do I believe there are ways to actually prevent elected officials from being bought by corporations? Yes. I’m just not sure if all of those methods are constitutional or not, or if they could backfire or not, like banning corporate lobbying while finding a way to allow individual lobbying.
“I am not a 'democrat' only because 'humility' and equality are spiritual principles corrupted by the attempt to mechanize and formalize them, with the result that we get not universal smallness and humility, but universal greatness and pride, till some Orc gets hold of a ring of power--and then we get and are getting slavery.”