Originally posted by Zur
Slightly off topic:
You are right, I'm afraid. But this is the best system we have now. To have a truly "democratic" system we would need to force every citizen to attend turn chats and vote in them. But of course being democratic may mean they can choose not to vote... The most democratic is Athenian democracy, followed by representative democracy, of which our system is a subset.
And you are right that an Athenian democracy is beyond our grasp. However, by removing the turn chats, we come one step closer to a representative democracy.