The Currency Of Democracy

is less the vote and it's attendant processes,
and more how easily voters desires and ideals
can be turned inside out and totally reversed. 

How To Start A Cartel Without Being Seen To

Once the chain is started there is no stopping the end result that is not horribly authoritarian. 

Pride Is Stolen Dignity

David Greaber wrote in his classic book
'Debt; the first 5000 years' of the slave owners
in the dim and distant past who were deferred to
by so many that 'their dignity lay in having too much
honour, an honour they stole from those they owned'.
How much honour is taken away unawares, nowadays,
from those on the lowest wages with the least security
of tenure by those who live in greatest ease
in the world,  where, by strange co-incidence
there the greatest waste as proof of wealth.