Is the democracy inherently wrong somewhere ?

Democracy was defined by some person as "where the heads are counted but not weighed".

This definition sometimes seems to be so proper. Recently, i felt it on the issue of extending reservation for OBCs in higher education. Despite its inherent dangers, no political partly spoke against it because it knew that speaking against it would mean loosing out a large vote bank. Every person, regardless of his wisdom, has been given one vote to cast. India, being a country which in its recent history was ruled by British is having a very large chunk of illiterate & ill informed people in its population. Though there is no direct relation between illiteracy & lack of wisdom but definitely a good co-relation is there. These ill informed people have always been exploited by those very politicians who make long bombastic speeches about how well-to-do people are not thinking for welfare of those who left behind. By doing this, these politicians manage to get their vote-bank intact if not growing. They bring up things which are ,in fact, against the welfare of these people but still they support them. For example, lets see the reservation in this light

Stakes of really poor & backward people.
* Discrimination over caste is there at many parts of our country but is reducing because money has now become the most important thing in social life.
* For this, politicians ask them to vote for them so that they would ask for reservation in job & higher education for these people.
* These people vote for such politicians, reservation is brought forward but never there is any mention to exclude the people of same caste but economically & socially forward.
* So in this process, only those who are already socially forward take benefit of reservation and those who are backward remain so.
* Again, politicians come to them and make speeches that how would they bring more reservation for them, if they vote for them (naturally!).
* These people would again caste their votes in favour of these shrewd politicians.

In this process, these poor, ill-informed people never get benefitted but they have been made to understand that it is for them. Hence, they vociferously support such thing which apart from not benefitting them, would make caste division alive for them. (but not for their caste people who are socially forward)

But unfortunately, these people are the biggest vote holders in our democracy. They do not even know what is good or bad for them but still have the power to send candidates to the parliament. The more shrewd the candidate is the brighter is his chance.