Nobody actually believes in democracy. Would you want to live in a system where 51% of people could vote the other 49% should be shot, and the whole apparatus of government would be obligated to carry out the grisly mandate? If you tried to accomplish that in the United States even in its current lawless state, the government would not carry it out. And that's why governments are instituted among men. Not to "get stuff done", or to give you stuff, but to stop me from clobbering you over the head and absconding with your phone. Any government which cannot do that should be altered or abolished.