It’s amazing how obvious it is, yet most don’t see it .

Yup.

Gm

Autocrats have always work to capture and undermine the democratic mechanisms that in principle should allow the expression of the people to take ground within the society. Even at the point where these mechanisms are broken they will keep shouting the virtue of democracy to create the illusion that...

I like the sentiment but I don't agree. To me a democrazy is where the people have a real say. Problem is our democracies have been corrupted to the point its democracy in name only.