Congratulations you just proved that we don't have a democracy by the people.

Of course it's 2 faces of the establishment, it's not left vs right.

My favorite time in history was the Gilded age, that was dominated by the new Republican Party, which claimed success in saving the Union, abolishing slavery and enfranchising the freedmen, while adopting many Whiggish modernization programs such as national banks, railroads, high tariffs, homesteads, social spending (such as on greater Civil War veteran pension funding), and aid to land grant colleges.

If a majority of people not voting delegitimized government, it would have happed before I was born.