Today's democracy is the dictatorship of an uneducated majority.
It is one of the worst systems that exists, because politicians know this and try to make that majority increasingly ignorant, and the validation of this majority also serves as a pretext for politicians to pass totally unjust and irrational laws.
It is very difficult to get out of this mess we find ourselves in, and the only way to do so is by educating your children and planting the seeds of rebellion.