So How Does Democracy Work Again?

Politicians make promises they have no intention of keeping (technically this is called "lying") to get us to vote for them. Once in power they refuse to do what they've promised and, instead, do things they failed to mention during the election. When voters object to them doing things they failed to mention during the election they ignore them. When voters, tired of being ignored, take to the streets they are arrested (though they are often released immediately because they shouldn't have been arrested in the first place). In the meantime the politicians also accept payments from large corportions (who have no vote because they are corporations and not individual citizens) to do things they failed to mention during the elections (which effectively means that corporations actually have all the votes). At the same time politicians, who technically work for us, vote tax exemptions, pay increases, expenses for things that the rest of us have to pay for ourselves and give themselves permission to break all those rules put in place to control them. They never apologise, refuse to answer questions that don't suit them, sell off public assets that don't belong to them and never, never ask voters what they think about all of this. And that is how democracy works - apparently.