It's not democracy, it's Democrats. Dem staffers and public servants are A) technocrats who will always defer to whoever most loudly and visibly claim to be experts (the claimed experts of flags are "vexillologists"), and B) conflict/risk-adverse and afraid of responsibility (if they didn't have rich parents they'd be accountants) so everything they create has the air of design by committee.

The Mississippi flag could be better but it's not nearly as reddit as its blue state counterparts