Democracy is said to be a system of government that transfers overt control to covert control. The problem with the monarchies of the past was always that the people would become upset with them and eventually rebel. Because the monarchs were always overtly in the open it was easy for the serfs to know who to render their dissatisfaction towards.

With democracy, on the other hand, there are no blatantly open monarchs ruling, which is much more convenient for the ruling elite. Rather than having a king or queen with all the power, a democracy simply allows the king or queen to hide behind the democratically elected front-men that they provide. It doesn't matter whether people choose Team A or Team B, at the end of the day they both play for the monarch behind them.