I suggest taking time to study the story of Carrol Quigley, as he made clear the mechanics by which the major 'democracies' were designed all along to be made nothing more than pantomime:
https://steemit.com/politics/@ura-soul/the-whistleblowers-series-13-representative-democracy-is-a-con-game-designed-by-a-hidden-network-of-oligarchs-a-highly-respected