The History of Democracy Begins With a Mistranslation

The history of democracy begins with a mistranslation. The most common translation that you'll see this everywhere from like Asher Taylor's documentary, what is democracy? You have demos, meaning the people and crados, meaning rule. It literally means the force or even violence of the people. This in turn might help explain the term democracy itself, which appears to have been coined as something of a slur by its elitist opponents.