It is generally understood that in a democracy it is one vote one person.
Ah, I understand what you mean. Though there were and are many examples of democracy there this principle did/does not hold. And in most of today's democratic countries there are exemptions to this principle. In federal democratic states (USA, Switzerland) regions can be overrepresented, or in the European Union, a citizen of Malta has far overproportional voting weight compared to a German.
If the tomfoolery of wallet blocking and blockchain history revisionism, as well as the fork itself, were put to a true democratic vote my feeling is that it would have failed to gain a majority.
I agree.
I also agree that there are some significant problems with Hive's PoS and governance system. I see it as democratic in so far, as every Hivean can (according to his Hive power) (up)vote other Hiveans' content. Everybody has a vote. And - as opposite to dictatorships - nobody is forced to take part in Hive.
Your points are well taken.