“Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.”
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It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.
In writing and politicking, it's best not to think about it, just do it.
That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.
As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.