What changed?
How is it that this system, which by its own definition, as ‘governed by the people’, is no longer serving the vast majority of us, the people?
It’s a curious question to be sure.
The system of democracy itself hasn’t changed much. We still have the same structures of governance, in more or less the same form as they first appeared back a few thousand years ago.
If you google Democracy you will find some really great descriptions of a people-led system that originated in ancient Greece.
The demos (translated as ‘people’) was at that time a space where the people met to discuss the issues and rules (kratos) of the community.