It might be similar to philosophy: most philosophy done today is not very good, but philosphers tend to know much more about philosophy than non philosophers.
I don't think that the West is entirely undemocratic, it is just not like the fairytale version we put into schoolbooks. There are rules that create a high degree of accountability even for the powerful, and in principle everyone can rise up there, unlike in a tyrannical system.
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In all political systems you can rise through the ranks - even ex-slaves in Rome could become rich (i.e. people that were treated as things for parts of their lives) - and there are certain traditions that bind the elite. Liberalism != Democracy.
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Rome was a republic! But just a hundred years ago, you generally could not rise through the ranks in Germany unless you were a member of the hereditary aristocracy.
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