Democracy is the illusion that the marginalized have power over the privileged. Change cannot be made from within a system. Those who are in power fear to lose that position, and therefore will never allow the system to strip them of it. Oppressive structures cannot be reformed. You cannot improve oppression; the only way to remove its influence is by destroying it outright. And, as history has proven, the only way to dismantle oppressive structures of power is through open revolution, not democracy