Perspective is what matters. Know what lens you're seeing through and know yourself.
Play the role of the citizen and see yourself in another. In this way you play the part of the Sage who sees themself in the other person. Start with seeing yourself in your fellow citizens and act accordingly. Realize you are the same as the citizens are the same with identical base needs. This will heal our democracy. Do you follow Christ or not? Do you follow Siddhartha or not? Do you follow God or not? Do you follow truth or your ideas about truth found only in thought? Do you know the difference? Truth isn't found in thought without presence. Truth is presence. The now is where you will find the Self.
Democracy provides the lane we can moor ourselves in as a society. A society wakes up in a mirror image to the citizen waking up to realize the democracy. An individual wakes up in a mirror image as the society wakes up through self inquiry individually or the democratic process collectively.