and don't want to think too much. Or maybe they just have too many other things to do or would rather be doing?

A democracy requires paying attention to what is going on in order to hold our leaders accountable to those who elect them.

A theocracy is not a democracy. It requires having 'faith' in a 'higher power' that doesn't need to justify itself to lower beings. Instead, the lower beings just need to trust, obey, worship and adore the 'higher being' or 'higher power' without question.

Some people let this belief in a 'higher power' (with a kind of 'coat tails' or heirarchal structure) go to their head in a convenient or selfish kind of way. Again, it may involve laziness, distraction, deception, opportunism... and lack of accountability, especially for those at the top of this system, but also for those at the bottom... IF they have "faith" in this system and in the 'hereafter' kind of justice or reward system.