Article raises questions about the criteria of democracy, dispelling commonplace, colloquial, but the media supporting, illusions related to the assessment of what democracy is, what democratic is and what a democracy is not, and as democracy must not be considered. Here are stripped simplistic, dichotomous divisions: the democratic-undemocratic. Democracy, democratic criteria are syndromatic. Similarly incorrect assertions are identifying, by way of implication, democracy with a democratic influence, pressure. Democratic system, its standards, procedures, institutions are often only a curtain ... for undemocratic, or even anti-democratic forms pressure of political actors. Here, under the banner of ‘democracy’, ‘will of the people’, ‘public interest’, etc., democracy can be ... disassembled.