Again election, as if election will change their quality. They remain… Let them remain as rascal, and simply by election, in place of one rascal, another rascal will improve it. This is the… Let them remain rascal, but get vote. So that is… That is described in Bhagavatam, sva-vid-varahostra-kharaih samstutah purusah pasuh [SB 2.3.19]. The population is sva-vid-varahostra, and they are giving vote — another big pasu. That’s all. This is going on. This is democracy. The voters are pasu, and he is selecting another big pasu. This is going on. The rascals, they do not know, “If instead of a tiger, we select one lion,” then what is the difference? Simply name. The tiger was president. Now the lion is the president. And both of them — animals. Where is the man, human being? This is going on. And because they are pasu, sva-vid-varaha, they are happy: “Now there is lion. Now the tiger is driven away. Now there is lion.” This is going on.

Srila Prabhupada, Conversation – April 19, 1977, Bombay