Democracy Encourages The Majority To Decide Things On Which The Majority Is Ignorant

The modern democratical sysyem in many modern capitalist states is indeed designed in this way whereby the majority,even though in theory it has the right to decide on things, is actualy kept very ignorant by the few number of individuals of the ruling class. This form of democracy is typically called a polyarchy. In a polyarchial system the control of government decisions about policy is constitutionally rested in elected officials who are chosen and removed through fair and free elections.Nearly all adults have the right to vote and become these public officials. Moreover all citizens of the state have the right for the freedom of their political expression including through the criticism of government officials, the conduct of the government and the prevailing government ideology.Also they have the right to form or join organisations or political parties that attempt to influence the government by competing in elections and there is easy acccess to information not monopolised by the government. However this is just curtain dressing as most people care mostly about 'watching television and drinking beer' so do not care or do not know much about how the ruling classes make decisions in running the country.Furthermore the few individuals of these ruling classes must make sure that this 'great beast' as Alexander Hamilton described the majority of the people, is controlled through the manufacture of consent and is not allowed to stray from these proper confines of ignorance.

Even public elections, in which the majority do vote for officials to run the country,is merely the trampling of the 'great beast' in support of one or another element of the same ruling class. The participation of this 'great beast' is strictly limited to a diminished public arena as all basic social and economic decisions are decided within intstitututions with a top-down authoritarian control,so in actual fact the practical democratical systems of Western capitalist countries are only