A democracy does its best.  It's best is the sum of everybody _actively taking action_.

Some of us can't do that easily.  But we can still support everyone else doing it.

That means contacting representatives, attending town meetings, trying to get people out of prison, trying to put other people in prison, changing laws, trying out other systems of governance, talking and fighting and making peace: being involved in the world to change it.

A democracy only exists so long as people are acting on what is around them.