here , the less educated pawns , these more downtrodden of all the self-interested beasts that make up a democracy , or what we call modern democracy , this representational distortion of voting for voters as though those voted in , the wealthy and influential who have access to the gilded , palatial edifices of power and can vie with others of their vaunted ilk to represent some portion of the masses as though maintaining interests other than their own aggrandizement of fortune and power , if not entirely gullible and lured by the promises vouchsafed onto them , wistfully pray for at least a portion of their fulfillment nonetheless , not that comely figures , favored with good materialistic karma , and in office by public mandate from vote tallies of the poor masses , should ever be doubted , for how can one doubt the masses who wield the ultimate power sanctioned by easily shredded constitutions ?