But still, it's all rotten. China is doing 50 year ahead planning where the Western world has about 2 after general elections.
You rely on 2-3 middle men to represent your interests as they please.
In democracy you directly vote people not strategies, priorities or bills.
We haven't really seen much variety of democratic governments. It's a classic recipe with the tinies twists. Some ideas: - vote 5 people not 1 - vote plans, programs and bills instead of people - vote priorties : education, health, infrastructure ... subsidies ,military - break down the 4/5 year vote into smaller decisions and more often - curate the list of candidates based on results - you get elected by vote but not achieving the promised plan/ results/growth/GDP/... effects takes you out