Back in the '70s like one of my favorite movies ever was 'The Bad News Bears' and that was a kids' movie but I don't think of it that way. I think of it as just a great movie because Walter Matthau was so funny and so harsh with those kids.
Apparently a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you fear you are an interchangeable cog.