What is democracy? Is that where you give everyone an equal vote even though they have no idea how the economy works? Democracy is a complete illusion in which best case scenario the fools govern the world. In reality they just get tricked by the actual people in charge to vote for their thing.

That's my hot take at least.
Plenty of philosophers rightfully despise 'democracy'.

Of course we could always define DPOS as a democracy as well so there are many conflicting definitions.