why democracy keeps legitimizing its own destruction

the puzzle of legitimate injustice isn't some abstract academic headache—it's the engine eating itself. we've built systems where the most vicious inequalities get voted into place through perfectly "democratic" processes. how many times do we need to watch wealth buy policy that protects wealth while calling it "the will of the people"? democracy's not broken; it's working exactly as designed to perpetuate the very hierarchies it claimed to dismantle. every election cycle proves this: we choose our chains better than those before us. the real question isn't how to fix voting—it's whether any electoral process can survive the moment people realize the game is rigged from the start. what happens when everyone sees the emperor's new clothes?