Well that didn't take long for you to post a contradictory statement...
He was not talking about the forum itself, he's talking about DT. You edited his quote to leave out the "trying to be" part.
DT1 is (trying to be) a democracy. You can't step out of the democracy and still expect it to work.
And except for the randomness of who makes the cut each month - in addition to the blacklisting for obvious trust system abuse - it pretty much is. Everyone in DT1 has an equal vote on who else gets into DT1. Its not a perfect system, and neither is democracy itself... Its the worst system of government except for all of the others.