Do Balllots Trample On Democracy?

[goddamnit]

'Democracy' is a one word oxymoron.

By that I mean it does not now and has never meant what people seem to think. IE rule by the majority.

Athenian democracy was rule by referendum of about one third of the population.

Neither the parliamentary system nor a republic are democracies. We elect representatives who allegedly act in the best interest of their constituents. They don't. In the US,UK,and Australasia (at least) the political process is controlled by two major parties.. They control exactly who you get to vote for. The dominant agenda of political parties to obtain and hold power.

Women and slaves did not vote in Athens, no professor or mainstream academic textbook labels the United States a direct democracy, the intention of the US governmental model is that of a written document above rulers and we are therefore supposed to be a republic, etc. I've heard points like these many times. I get it. I was just trying to quickly express a question out without spending lots of time brainstorming how to semantically craft each word: Is a ballot not restrictive?