Ah democracy...
Democracy is all, democracy prevails, democracy is a beauty, a perfect jewell. It is the finest invention born out of human minds. Democracy is pure pleasure. I really cant understand democratic people who dont taste the marvels of democracy. Every day I'm totally delighted by the power of democracy.

What is democracy?
From a standard democratic stance, democracy is a project of society. It is a project of society based on a certain conception of the individual and the ways individuals interact among themselves. Democracy somehow considers all the individuals as the replications of a unit-individual, at least when it comes to certain fundamentals.
This leads to a set of beliefs concerning the society that must enable those individuals to live up to their full potentials.

Democracy is a project of the lowest level possible. It is the base of every other bases, the root of all roots. Every other aspect in a society is subjected to democracy.
Hence the conception of the government.
By government, one must understand all the forms of organisations a society can give to itself in order to make a social project come true.
Because of one democratic conception, it is classical to say that after democracy (as a social project) comes the political organisation. The political organisation is the second in importance, the one that might rule all the others whereas the political branch is in theory only subjected to democracy. Then comes all the other organisation, like economics (or the ways a society give itself the material means to achieve its society's project), religion and so on...

For example, a government has generally not the theorical powers to act out of democracy, to abridge democracy. While democracy allows of course its own end, this must happen through a specific procedure, showing the subjection of the political organisation to the society's project called democracy.

There have been quite a lot of subj-projects spawned by democracy: some related to the political organisation for example, like anarchism or popular representation, some related to the economical organisation like capitalism or communism, some interested in achieving democracy faster like nazism and so on. But whatsoever, what matters each time is democracy.

Democracy... My personal definition is democracy is what democracies do. While looking simple, this definition is powerful. It allowed me to trace back the original project through the consequences. The most marvellous aspect of democracy is that people evolving in a democratic environment become predictible as a whole. It is a pure joy to take the democratic world as it was at the start and to see the effects of democracy as it has been progressing through time.
It is a pure joy to read democratic thinkers and to say 'yes, this guy was right because I just found out the same through deduction and observation'.
Democracy is eternal. It will last as long as the human beings...