The democratic process, when used for political decision making, creates the appearance of legitimacy, and invokes the natural human herd mentality to stifle dissent. The main difference between regular democratic decisions, and political ones; is that the former are voluntary, and applicable to all participants; whereas the latter are unilaterally applied to all, regardless of real consent. Try applying this to regular situations, such as shopping, or love making, to see why this is bad.

It depends on if you think that a society that runs a successful plebiscite where its population votes to never have another vote remains a democracy. Voting for the central processes of government to be hidden from you, and for informed participation in them by the population to be made impossible, is a constitutional failure. It also creates powerful hidden parts of the government that can exert control over the public parts of government.

you dont vote for every decision that an elected government takes. so in fact no democracy is a true democracy, merely the fake appearance of giving some power to people where they actually have none.