Modern democracy is mostly just a scam to gaslight the voters into blaming themselves for what their non-representative governments do to them. So of course they hate it when the proles manage to take back any smidgen of power.
If by modern you mean everything for the past 200 years as opposed to Athens, sure. Democracy is only useful in small areas where people know their neighbors and for specific purposes - maybe like voting a representative to town council that you see every Sunday at church - not for deciding on everything across an empire. At that point the shadowy figures behind the scenes who always ran things will keep running things, but use Democracy as a form of consensus manufacturing. It's not a mistake. It's by design.
Modern democracy is mostly just a scam to gaslight the voters into blaming themselves for what their non-representative governments do to them. So of course they hate it when the proles manage to take back any smidgen of power.
If by modern you mean everything for the past 200 years as opposed to Athens, sure. Democracy is only useful in small areas where people know their neighbors and for specific purposes - maybe like voting a representative to town council that you see every Sunday at church - not for deciding on everything across an empire. At that point the shadowy figures behind the scenes who always ran things will keep running things, but use Democracy as a form of consensus manufacturing. It's not a mistake. It's by design.
Modern 'democracy' is just the rulers continuously saying "why are you hitting yourself?"