With democracy nearly everything is subjective and depends on the hierarchy democratically instituted among peoples.
First of all : there are the democratic people and the undemocratic people.
Everything that democratic people do must be analysed a different way compared to undemocratic people's actions. One example is that there is no corruption in democracies because this is by definition impossible.
After that, there is a gang hierarchy among democratic people themselves. One ganglord, several more or less appreciated lieutnants and at the very bottom, henchmen who are often not that separated with the condition of undemocratic people.