To what extent democracy was deliberate, in the path towards the grand failure of actual necro-political transition to technocracy? Was democracy exploited, was it some sort of class war of the rich against the poor, or is sado-populism the real essence of power?

A question compressing different explanatory registers - structural, strategic, and libidinal - that tend to converge, in this transitional moment. 

1. Was democracy deliberate in its own undoing?

Only partially—and mostly indirectly.

Liberal democracy was designed with structural asymmetries that made such a transition - a collapse into technocracy - plausible under stress. Its founding architecture privileged procedural leg…