That's a good one! lol.

If by democratic you mean send your proposal to the dev mailing list which king Maxwell moderates,
probably get ignored, or maybe you can try to bring up your issue at a stalling scaling conference,
or maybe get them to subscribe to your idea at a roundtable agreement which will later be swept under the rug. 
If your plan doesn't fall in line with Blockstream corporate interests, expect the status quo to continue
because gosh we can't do anything without 'consensus'... If you persist in your efforts then undoubtedly, you're just
blocking consensus.  Just accept the roadmap of king Gregory since he knows more about Bitcoin than you do.

Yes, its extremely democratic.