Alas, I am OUT of the political influence game, even at the very low levels I was before. I am weary, let the young and/or active take that up.
And, of course, I much admire TPTB_needs_war and his efforts to find freedom through financial privacy.
democracy1 b : a government in which the supreme power is
vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation usually involving periodically held free
elections plutocracy
1 : government by the wealthy
You write as if
plutocracy were republican
democracy.