In an ideal democracy it would.
Its yet again misrepresented interests. And as an extend to my side note: The decades long shift of interest representation went from the public to the private sphere. The distrust in goverment may be justified, but its no counter argument, because the means of democratic participation is the only viable tool we have left.
FUD helps the parasites. Democracies cannot fail, only the people in it do.
I think this is false if only because the premise of Democracy is so poorly defined. What are we voting on? Why? Who is "we"?
Am I allowed to call a vote to strip you of your property? Am I allowed to call a vote to tell you what to eat? Am I allowed to call a vote to tell what to do or where to go?
Why or why not? We have laws today that do all of these things. What does "failure" mean?
I have no ax to grind in this story, I just thought it was pertinent given your questions.
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/01/sw...
I wonder if this is purely organic, because you see clearly delusional claims about it everywhere online nowadays.