The Knee-Jerk Nihilist is the most sophisticated, most dangerous, and most evil of the Six Evil Geniuses. He has probably taken an introductory course in literary theory or postmodern philosophy, but has forgotten most of what he learned. The one thing he took away from these courses, though, was a fundamental conviction that the world around us is just too complicated and too contradictory for us to make any sense of. He also believes that because all our judgments are clouded by our own prejudices, anyone s opinion is as good as anyone else s. The Knee-Jerk Nihilist is often seen wearing black and reading Nietzsche.
Democracy is a relative concept.
In fact, the concept of concept is also relative. Words mean whatever we want them to mean, and that is especially true for democracy. For some, it means free elections. For others, it means keeping your own thugs in power and keeping the enemy thugs out of power. No one can ever give a coherent definition, because it always depends on the context.