When is democracy viable?

As I’ve been reading various books, an idea keeps popping up. Suddenly radio playlists, MTV, and A&R guys aren’t the all-powerful gatekeepers anymore. At long last the music industry is becoming a democracy. In our governmental systems, we elect representatives to make decisions for us, sending them to Washington to write bills, oppose bills, pass bills, or veto bills. We ideally find candidates who will make similar decisions to those we ourselves would make. We elect them in a process [...]