Capitalism has one goal - increasing wealth. Politically this means whoever has wealth wants power and uses power to gain more wealth. Economically, this leads to short term wealth increase at the expense of all long term concerns like health or environment.
Believing in democracy is more than believing in tallying up votes. It is believing that society should be run for the people, by the people. Our society is run for and by the ownership class. Capitalism cannot, and will not, ever be compatible with democratic principles.
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Socially, the incentives are to prevent forming social bonds, which decrease "efficiency" of turning each and every person into a unit of labour. None of this is democratic because a democratic society will interfere with the exploitation required by the capitalist system.
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Democracy in capitalism is democracy of the bourgeoisie. This isn't even analysis or anything, just history - originally only land owners could vote!
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*unregulated capitalism
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Regulated capitalism is inherently unsustainable, as it cant prevent the accumulation of mass wealth in few hands, which leads to mass concentrated power, which leads to capitalists writing the regulations themselves to suit their own aims. Every. Single. Time.
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There's this weird consensus, apparent mostly in the USA, that a presidential candidate have to be someone with money. Someone from the higher class. This isn't something anyone would actually say out loud, but current popular democracy system somehow entails such rule.
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Ours world of do-gooding, democratic semi-tyranny. When it comes to politics, so long as your motivations are to do good to your fellow man, and so long as your methodology is democratically-validated activity, then you can tyrannize your fellow citizen pretty much without limit
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Basic idea behind democracy is that anything goes if a sufficiently large number of citizens like it. Tyranny isn't tyranny when the majority wants it. Totalitarianism and open government immorality aren't enslaving and evil as long as they're backed by a free and fair election
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