So it is likely what people will think of with the word.

I have seen this increasingly often in the last years; at first, I was surprised that people considered themselves anti-democratic until I understood they were talking about the rule of majority, or "democratic" as opposed to "republic". It makes me sad to see this beautiful word, and the ideas originally associated with it, used to describe the unjust and tyrannical systems we live in today. The problem runs deeper; if we allow our words to be taken from us, we become speechless. When we become speechless, we lose the only power we have; just as when people associate "anarchy" (the absence of a ruler) with "anomie" (the absence of rules).

I resteemed a post that shared more on the Socrates angle.

I think I saw it. It was great, and each point was valid, but also calls "representative parliamentarism" by the name of "democracy", as @thegermandude pointed out. But instead of c&ping my nitpick there, I'll simply make a post :)