How do YOU define democracy?

Is it merely about holding an election and the party with the largest voting population wins to impose their religious ideology on the minorities or is it about freedom regardless of race, gender, and creed?

And one more question: If Israel were to drop the pretense of being a democracy and admit to its theocratic intentions, what then? What's so wrong about being a theocracy? There are many in the world. Is the notion that most of them are Arab and Muslim so distasteful that Israel can't stomach being included on that list with them? Is that really what this is all about? Discuss.