Not 100%, though not 0% either. On the spectrum, it does appear to have been closer to democracy in the past than the present.

I note that any action taken via force may not work out well in today's era of surveillance technology, plus also it would still need the unskippable step of achieving consensus among the people, which is nowhere close to happening.

Watching the fights on the Threadiverse is instructive: we cannot even achieve consensus here, so I think trying to go beyond that to include mainstream normies is hopeless. You can fight against the leaders in a society, but how do you fight both them and the will of the people at the same time? You cannot.

It's just my opinion, but I think it's much more likely to achieve any kind of change at all to work within the existing systems.