In a democracy there will be persusion in the form of arguments.

But in a democracy the demos is not actively or low-key campaigning to give away their power, to put the interests of economic royalists ahead of their own.

In other words, the quality of energy is not defensive when someone tells you to be more proactive, faster, more zealous in defending your own interests.

The first functioning democratic governance was practiced by the pirates. Why? Each pirate could kill half the crew at night. And they all knew this fact about each other. So they did the rational thing: nobody’s voice can be ignored, or there are dire concequences.

The only way democracy works is if most people will want to govern, make policy, make and change the rules of the game, own the game, and not merely passively playing the ruleset they inherited from their ancestors.

Once you encounter someone who lacks that hunger to be an administrator and not merely a passive and reactionary player, more arguments is the wrong way to go. These passive people cooperatively bind to economic royalists and their entire view of life is not 1, 5, or 10000 arguments away. They together with the economic royalists are an obstacle, not some harmless loyal opposition, but basically a team of rapists and their enablers.