Reality is relative. Your reality saves you, which is really your perception is your salvation. It gets you through each and every day, through your life. You believe you live in a democratic society giving you faith in the country and world you live in. In reality it is far from a democracy but the word makes you comfortable since you are taught to be comfortable with it. You have been taught all your life that democracy is the best government, there are no other options. This is not a democracy and the majority doesn't win. But yet it does. And yet it is good that it doesn't since you and the majority don't know what is best for you. However neither does the money that really makes the decisions and rules you. That is why it is important you think you live in a democracy. With out this faith it would be impossible. Nothing would work. It would be failure. So continue on in your faith otherwise we would be dead.