Geopolitics

Proposed one-sentence definition of democracy (or liberalism?) that's different from any I've seen:

**The government feels more like a game than like a player.**

That is, it's an environment for different people to interact, cooperate, compete etc, and not an actor exercising its own agency / intentionality.

Its definition could evolve, but right now liberal democracy feels to me like “an opaque form of governance where financial capital and retaining power are the goals and not the wellbeing of the citizens”