Clearly democracy has its unique and counter-intuitive ways of functioning. To be or not to be - remains the perennial dilemma for the governing and the governed indeed !
Do citizens have real bargaining power ? The inadequate voting arrangements have been already countered so very effectively and the audience/spectators are left to wonder ; judiciary had closed eyes at inception ; civil society so easily neutralised; and media has its very own dilemmas ?
Yes More questions than answers in the path to progress as long as we get there (stylizing the march - few steps forward and few retraced). Hoping though net movement is forward and in the hallowed direction !!