In a Democracy, people matter.

In a Democracy People matter, or they 'should' matter. If the People do not matter, its not a democracy. How is that conceivable? Well, simply put, in a form of government where the People don't matter, obviously, 'someone' or 'something else' matters. That has to be the equation, because the 'political equation' is that of the 'relation of the Top and the Bottom'. That's the political domain. Politics and government has no other 'point of origin'. People were here first, then governments. People and government may have originally begun with 'families' and 'tribes' and finally 'collectivities'. This last 'arrangement' has acquired many negative connotations; 'Communism'; Socialism'; 'pluralism', even 'majority-ism', but, in fact, the terms are all congealed, general, abstractions, that only serve to impute 'negativity' towards the Bottom of government. All these different ways of creating a negative impression of the Bottom of government, are just means by which the Top takes advantage of the Bottom, by means of Language, or maybe, even by means, of the so-called Linguistic Turn. That's politics. Its devastating, but its just 'empty talk'. The true relation of the Top to the Bottom is not 'just' an abstract relation; it has a reality. The Top is generally linguistic, but the Bottom, although it is usually 'referred' to with abstract language, is, nevertheless, real. How do I know that? Because you and I are real. Hence the relation of the Top to the bottom becomes very important. The relation must be conceived as a 'real relation' and that requires that, the 'Many people' at the Bottom be seen as 'individuals', 'real' concrete individuals; that means 'Number'. If that is not occurring, the 'real individual' is being 'flattened out as an abstraction', only, and that is not Democracy. People matter; people matter more than governments matter. This last phrase does not create an 'opposition' between people and government; to the contrary, it situates the relation of the government to the people, and the People to the government, in its proper perspective. Governing is a 'job' with 'built-in' political power at the Top, but it's 'representative' in nature, and the power 'emanates from the People' at the bottom; not from the Top. To be sure, the Top also matters, but only because the Peoples have 'made it' to matter, and only, as an obligation to 'represent' the People. Otherwise, there would be no necessity for such things as governments.