Here's what's relevant, David.
   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.