I guess it depends on whether by "undemocratic" you mean "the proles have no input" or "the proles don't have as much input as I think we ought to have"
I'm flirting with the idea that the real reason that "democracies" are more pleasant to live in than other regimes has less to do with commoners' input to policy, and more to do with diffusion of power. If there are many routes to and sources of power, the capacity of any one power-holder to wield that power is limited
but then, what is a democracy?
it was bastille day yesterday, and here we are 230-ish years later still asking the same questions