Democracy means government by the people, or a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system.
It is a state of society characterised by formal equality of rights and privileges.
And (in this definition, at least) it features
… the absence of hereditary or arbitrary class distinctions or privileges
Right there we can see why democracy might be problematic for Māori Party co-leader Rawiri Waititi, who would have surprised nobody when he outlined his vision for a ‘tiriti-centric Aotearoa’ where the majority doesn’t rule over Māori
In other words, he wants Maori to be politically privileged.
When he said this, he drew attention to a reality which Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and her ministers won’t publicly acknowledge – that our democracy is being gradually debilitated by measures her…
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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