No, I think the GP is right: in order for democracy to work, a significant part of the population must understand how it works, or at least care about how it works. "Educated" does not always mean "high-income" or "high-status" -- it can also just mean what it says.

If you only go by a set of established rules, you:

- are running (part of) your government by autocratic decree.

- still risk the population rejecting your form of "democracy".