The term you seem to be searching for is some variant of 'stupid', 'ill-advised' or 'deceitful'. There is nothing undemocratic about it; democracies famously turn up flavour-of-the-month decisions in defiance of tradition and whatever the elites think is a good idea. That is why most democracies don't generally go with the old school approach where the whole town meets on a hill and counts hands; the results are too volatile for the powerful to be comfortable with them.
The term you seem to be searching for is some variant of 'stupid', 'ill-advised' or 'deceitful'. There is nothing undemocratic about it; democracies famously turn up flavour-of-the-month decisions in defiance of tradition and whatever the elites think is a good idea. That is why most democracies don't generally go with the old school approach where the whole town meets on a hill and counts hands; the results are too volatile for the powerful to be comfortable with them.