The anarchic temperament will hate whoever happens to be in authority.
In a monarchy, it would hate the king. In a theocracy, it would hate the priests. In a statist arrangement, it would hate the government. In a plutocracy, it would hate the propertied class. In a patriarchy, it would hate male authority. In a matriarchy, it would hate female authority. And in a democracy, it would hate the people.
The same kind of people who spoke most in favor of democracy have, in democratic societies, become misanthropic. They see in people the same traits that they’ve seen before in kings and priests – bigotry, greed, ignorance and stupidity – and they attack them with the same intensity with which people similar to themselves previously attacked the kings or the priests. They see people doing wrong things without a government or an elite directing them in these wrong things. And that disenchants with democracy the very same kind of people who fought for democracy in the first place.
The most aggressive opposition to the hippie movement came not from business or government elites but from the “rednecks.” These people saw that movement not as a path to liberation but as a path to giving up their freedoms to a state. I have seen in people who were most like the hippies in later generations a misanthropic attitude where they saw people as greedy, stupid and lazy. The same people who wanted power to the people became disenchanted with the people. This then lead them into despair or else lead them to embrace totalitarian ideologies.
Whenever someone creates a false God, it is only a matter of time before someone else calls it Satan. While monarchists see the king as God – while theocrats see Pope or Ayatollah as God – while plutocrats see money as God – while totalitarians see government as God – and while democrats see the people as God – none of the above deserve to be elevated to that status. Whether or not a part of a government and whether or not a part of the propertied class, people are people. Some are good; some are bad. Most are a mix of both. We will see this in any arrangement. It is a reality that cannot be escaped.
There will always be power of one kind or another, and there will always be anarchic temperaments. What the anarchic temperaments excel at is seeing errors that get done by people in power and working to correct these errors. The result is political arrangements staying in place while doing away with the wrongs in them. And that is a work well done.