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This proves my point - in a couple of different ways.Give a name of a democracy where the will of people always prevails.
You're speaking about direct democracy.
In representative democracy, which is pretty much the only form of democracy that is being used on planet Earth, the will of the people doesn't mean much when we're not on the elections periods.
One of the main reasons why we favor representative democracy is because we understand that the majority of the people cannot be entrusted with making the right decisions, hence we choose a politician that we believe represents our opinions and pray that he wouldn't turn asshole on us.
Indeed, the democratic value of "the majority rules" in modern democracies is represented mainly by the elections themselves.
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