All Governments, whether Democratic or Autocratic, are about millions of People.

Government is about governing. That may sound simplistic, but governing is about People, and when one realizes that the 'objects' of all governing are millions of People, at the bottom, the complexity of the situation can be appreciated. Regardless the type of government at the Top, the Bottom of governing, in all cases, is always people, millions of People. The 'distance' created by language when the 'relation' between the Top and the Bottom is merely linguistic, is insurmountable. The relation must be 'real'. By 'real', I mean, it cannot remain a mere linguistic label; that would 'interfere' with the real relation between the Top and the Bottom. A mere linguistic relation is 'open' to much verbal manipulation. Unfortunately, such linguistic shenanigans characterizes politics. Of course, politics treats political language as a 'mere linguistic' relation and hence, introduces many variables into the real relation. A real relation 'directly' affects the people at the Bottom. Policy and Law should be categories of 'democratic thought' that directly effects the people. I use the term 'democratic' thought because in a democracy all policy and Law directly effects the people at the Bottom. The Top of government only has a duty to carry out, and to effect, in a direct manner, the category of people to whom the policy or law is directed. All Law and all Policy, in a democracy, relates to the Freedom and Equality of the individual at the Bottom. Of course, in Autocratic rule, the Laws and the Policy implemented by the Top, is done in such fashion as to 'solidify' the power at the Top. In such cases, the Bottom doesn't have much say-so about any policy are law; the people are there to be ruled. In a Democracy the People are 'governed', not 'ruled'. The term 'ruled' has a top to bottom relation that constitutes a 'one-way' street. Its a 'dead-end' street. In a democracy, 'governing' People becomes a 'two-way' street; the relation is from Top to Bottom and from Bottom to Top. There is 'control' from the Top to the Bottom, and there is 'control' from the Bottom to the Top. The Law applies to both ends of the 'governing relation'. Democracy is a government, "of people", "by People", and "for people". Its never a 'dead-end' relation.