Fundamentally democracy is a populist utilitarian system. Where a crackhead has as much as a say in what happens in the country as the most forward-thinking individual in the country. This is why democracy at it's later stages always devolves into a popularity contest since the voters are fucking clueless clowns and pick who they like. Not who is qualified to run the country.
It's why Socrates was virulently against democracy as a political system. We view the vote as a right, not as a privilege (there is an argument for it being a privilege in that criminals can't vote but in general most people can vote). This is why we fall into the traps of populism over and over again. The scariest thing to an incompotent democratic leader is an educated population. If they ever start degrading educational quality within a country it is for this very reason. They seek to undermine the voter's mind and their capacity to be inquisitive about the world we live in.
It is also for this very reason things such as finance, laws, economics and accounting are jargonised and pushed continually into a specialist realm to make it seem more challenging than it is. They want you to think those that engage in these fields are somehow smarter, more capable people than you or myself, to make it seem almost, unapproachable. The truth is that these fields are intentionally made more convoluted than needs be in order to make manipulation easier and harder to detect. Things like law are completely incomprehensible to those without a law degree yet it affects every man, woman and child. More so than trigonometry or chemistry will ever do, yet we aren't provided with any basic education regarding legal terms and conditions (name me one time when you had to whip out the old Pythagorean Theorem or your knowledge about mitochondria came in handy, why the fuck did we learn this shit at school, what the fuck is the point).
An idiot admires complexity, a genius admires simplicity. If you make something so clusterfucked no-one can understand it idiots will believe you're a genius because they can't understand it when the truth is no-one can because it's a load of bullshit.
It's what makes tax avoidance and avoiding criminal convictions such an easy option for the wealthy, they can exploit loopholes for their benefit since they are able to hire people that can take advantage of these technicalities while you and I will never have the option to. These methods rely on your ignorance as an individual. They want to keep you at a level where you're capable enough to turn up to work everyday and not kill yourself in the process but stupid enough that you don't ever question what's going on around you and mindlessly stay within an endless loop of monotony and taxes until death. All the while the rich are able to retain the vast majority of their wealth they accumulated by fucking us over while living a lifestyle that we can only dream about.
It's a lifestyle that should be easily accessible to the masses. Through hard work and dedication people should be allowed to attain a comfortable lifestyle where they don't have to worry about a roof over their heads, clothes on their backs and food in their stomachs. This shouldn't be nearly as difficult as it is. We have an overabundance issue, we do not have a scarcity issue. 9.5 million tonnes of food are wasted every year in the UK alone. We have an allocation and efficiency issue. The overpopulation of humans is a myth, a cull proposed in movies and fiction isn't necessary. There is more than enough to go around. We have a population density issue in our busiest cities but that's it. Why this is such a common narrative in science I do not know.
Why pay attention to politics, who gives a shit about the economy are common tropes you hear. Know that we are being controlled and governed by verifiable retards that rely on your active ignorance. A politician is voted in for being likable and speaking well. It has nothing to do with actually leading a country. It's character traits that are common in sociopaths, not leaders.
We need to punish narcissistic behaviour and learn to cooperate again. We don't live in isolation; in numbers we find strength, in others we find meaning. Read game theory.