The most direct experience of democracy which the common man has experienced takes place in the classroom, the board room, or the annual church meeting in a nave. A binary decision is put to a crowd, then there is a show of hands. This leads the common man to think that democratic society is generally governed by what the 51% want.
The last year has proven, rather, that democratic societies are actually governed by the most vocal 7 or 8%.
There are still faint glimmers of civilization left in this barbaric slaughterhouse that was once known as humanity. 