Democracy, which is supposed to be government of the people, for the people, and by the people, is now the new way for modern slavery. The government of my country, under the pretense of democracy, are taking citizens through hell. The situation we are in is a situation of smiling in pain.
Slavery is a word in find too difficult to use in qualifying some of the situations about our world and society today but, it’s almost evident in certain situations such as stipulated in OP.
Some nations have been blinded by the idea of democracy to the point that, democratic processes are not even followed in the electoral processes but instead, you find a very corrupted method to conducting of elections and this proceeds into the mood by which the people are govern where, the citizens are undermined in decision making and taking.
It’s evidently the reality in many societies today but still, slavery isn’t the word to qualify it.