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How come "democracy is broken", only when people get voted into power, that you don't like? Well, that's democracy. I believe an every increasing government is broken, how about we start with that? Democracy doesn't help anybody, if government is broken.

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"Democracy is broken" means that the will of the people is largely ignored, regardless of who they elect. This has been demonstrated to be the case in the US [1].

What's wrong with government "increasing" as society becomes more specialized and complicated?

And not everyone thinks that way, so it's not a place to "start" when talking about democracy.

[1] https://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/mgilens/fi...

Individuals feel ignored, even when several million form a group, because often the groups are still very small relative to the whole. Plus those groups are very temporary. Meanwhile we have government and corporations that form long lived groups. This is the natural result of centralization I think. Like an ant colony. Want more voice? Move to a country with a tiny population. You gain a much larger voice, but you also give up things.

how was the will of the people ignored in the 2016 election?

I agree in the larger sense though. In my opinion, the only way to stop a corrupt government is to shrink it.

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