We don't have a "Democratic Government" in Amerika. We have a Representative "Democracy" which is barely a real democracy at all. Especially when the candidates are reduced down to Coke, Pepsi & a Mountain Dew (which never wins) and the voices of citizens are not really taken seriously unless backed up by $$$ or power. We could and should be able to vote on local issues that affect the states we live in, (esp with block-chain) and occasionally do get these on the ballot. But the major decisions, like tax structures and WHERE that tax money goes, (Banksters, Corporate Welfare & the War Machine) we have no say.