.:: The double standards of Western countries to democracy 2::.

The Constitution which we have (...) is called democracy because the country is not orientated to a few people, but to the greatest number.

(Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War II, 37, originally part of the preamble of the draft EU Constitution)

In how far the state works today for the interests of the majority of citizens or is only "orientated to few people". is a decision to be taken by everyone on his own