This is really the ignition-switch, the thing that started it all. These fruits are tasty but merely the democracy translated into the sphere of politics, or the politics following democratic form.
Democracy is much, much broader than politics.
It is an entire dynamic, a play of forces. One of the things democracy did do for politics- from Locke and Montesquieu to the brilliantest Founding Fathers, was the dissolution of authoritarianism and authoritarian centers. Humankind must only answer to humankind- its happiness, its heroics, and its discontents. I'd rather groom Democracy as a suitable replacement for metaphysics. A noteworthy difference, in my mind.