Did you have more agency, more access to justice, more potential to right wrongs

Did you have more agency, more access to justice, more potential to right wrongs, before democracy, or after democracy? Why? Liberalism converted the state from righting empirical wrongs to pursuing hypotheses utopian of goods. What has power distance done? It’s disappeared. https://twitter.com/curtdoolittle/status/1415760096630616073