Originally Posted by Just2Good
Many things enable accountability, it is not transparency alone which does so.
However, it doesn't hurt.
But the topic of this thread is ridiculous, democracy is not an illusion. Try living in a non-democratic country if you think other systems of government are better Axiom. 
The illusion is certainly pervasive .
We have been brainwashed to believe that we live in a democracy . It has all the outward appearance of one , but a clear headed examination of the facts lead to the conclusion that western govts(your supposed leading democracies) are nothing but paid employee puppets of their real boss the banking establishment elite along with their major corps and front organisations like UN,WTO,WHO,CFR,RIIA, .
If we really had true representative democracy then there would be no EU , mass immigration , wars in iraq , afghan , banker bailouts , amongst many other issues where govts simply ignore the will of their supposed electorate and fall lock step in line with globalist think tanks .
Its so obvious , a screaming elephant in the room.
This is why i have no alternative but to rely on the mass brainwashing model as a means to explain this phenomenon.