Modern global democracy makes perfect sense once it exposes itself as elites enriching their own families through private patrons while using that same network of wealth and influence to buy voting banks to maintain the status quo from which those elites draw their power
The low is always permanently politically irrelevant. Their relevance is that they're a totem - a coordination point of the state religion. If your action was (ostensibly) for their benefit, it was pious and if not, impious.