It is possible to come up with a democratic social choice process that satisfies Arrow's axioms as long as we are willing to let go of the No Dictatorship axiom.

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Arrow's Impossibility Theorem states that no social choice process can satisfy all of his axioms (Unrestricted Domain, Non-Dictatorship, Pareto Efficiency, and Independence of Irrelevant Alternatives) simultaneously. Letting go of the No Dictatorship axiom alone does not resolve the impossibility; the theorem precisely shows that a dictatorship is the only system that can meet the other criteria.

It Is Possible to Come Up with a Democratic Social