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Democracy is not a state but an ever-ongoing process that involves everyone.
When the demands on society become too great, whether economic or transformative, it becomes difficult. Then the overburdened begin to follow the simpler/simplified narratives.
One could now argue that one could learn from history, but in an individualistic (or segregated) society, it is at least to some extent in the nature of the overburdened to not manage this. If these people are not helped in time, things will get turbulent. (And, in a bitter irony, often vote against their own long-term interests).
Thus, the greater the stress to which a society is exposed, the greater needs to be the solidarity of the "strong" with the "weak". Neoliberalism, however, pushes in the opposite direction.