Every democracy has political problems. The reason being that if every individual is Free and Equal, s/he feels that these factors guarantee that they can do whatever they wish. That is not necessarily the case. Social activity must be kept within the parameters of the Law and the Social institutions of the democracy. But even then, lots of acceptable activities within these structural pararmeters can still be harmful to a democratic spirit. For example; the economy can flourish and the medium of exchange can be so productive that an individual or a corporation can amass great amounts of wealth and money. Thats fine, there's nothing wrong with that. However, when that individual begins to consider the accumulation of money and wealth as his/her sole social goal, that individual begins to confuse the principles of democracy with the principles of capitalism. Its at this point where an individual must realize that s/he also has duties and responsibilities to his democratic Nation. Democracy places a great weight on the shoulders of an individual. The individual must learn to sacrifice personal self-gain and egoistic inclinations in exchange for the opportunity of living in a 'condition of togetherness' with others, which is afforded him by the principles of democracy. The principles of Freedom and Equality from the Top down are generalizations that must be fitted to the individual responsibility from the Bottom up. The Freedom and Equality are still there but the duty and responsibility of the individual at the Bottom is also there. The problematic arises when the individual at the bottom substitutes capitalistic principles in place of democratic principles, in other words, Greed. When individual greed becomes institutional greed, we have money as the motive force of the democratic social. Then money becomes 'political'; legal fictions are allowed to participate in politics, and Party -loyalty begins to amass more wealth and money at the top 1% of the social. The process is self-destructive for the individual and de-constructive for the democratic social.