What's a radical bottom up political democracy if not the kind where every citizen can vote? (climatism.blog)
Most of the others seem to me to meet the core threshold of a functioning political democracy (unless others have specific info / challenges). (nextleft.org)
The necessities of war and of defense make political democracy difficult, since the great power that must be mobilized and directed by centralized authority against enemies abroad is easily turned to the suppression of inconvenient freedoms at home. (religion-online.org)