Democracy means the people have the power. The electoral and representative system most countries have in place in more or less the same way is a rough first stab at that.
That doesn't make it true. In any case, I believe democracy is desired. I don't believe it's achieved in very meaningful ways with this model of representative democracy most countries implement.
That is the issue. My country is riddled by old person, who do not give a single fuck about the future beyond their own grave.
Are you really that naive? Democracy is majority(mob) rule, driven by the organizations or groups that know how to manipulate the mob (Public).
The Majority doesn't represent the people, they're only the people that convinced themselves they are more right then the rest of the people and have risen into their own positions of power and feed off of their own delusions of grandeur.