This may come as news to some, surprise to others and disappointment to the uninitiated: we are not a democracy. Yet this is the perceived democracy people want to protect from people such as I, and argue that more of the same is the real secret to success. But we never were a democracy. We have labelled our political activity as such, but still, we were not a democracy. We were an oligarchy that has now morphed and evolved into a plutocracy.