Democracy, Plato and the president of my country

It is known that Plato (The Republic, Book VI) did not approve democracy as the best way to govern a society. Nevertheless, now a days it is difficult to find people thinking something similar. Everybody loves democracy. I live in a declared democratic country: its president calls itself "red" meaning communist. At the same time he desires peace and freedom to everybody. History tells us two facts: 1.- Nobody up to now has ever experimented freedom in a communist country (otherwise, I dare you to give counterexamples). 2.- In the greatest holocaust mankind knows, 150 million assassinated people had suffered the communist concept of peace.

My country's president is a product of democracy. Plato warned us about this problem 2,500 years ago. He told us that democracy do not cast the most philosophical president, but the most rhetorical one. And that is exactly what we have here. Unfortunately rhetoric means lie, and philosophy implies truth.

Plato also asserted that "No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth", so I'd rather remain anonymous.