>>212895677>The problem is not the tool but how you use it, as they say.The tool is not a static element.
Democracy is a system and systems reform over time
If democracy is allowed to follow its path it will decay into authoritarianism and a system that is resilent to reform.
America is one of the oldest democracies in earth and it shows what democracies become over time
Uniparties controlled by an oligarchy that plays both teams and switch mask every certain time to keep an appearence of legitimacy.
While the real power, however, is retained in unelected institutions
You dont vote your press, you dont vote your financial sector, you dont vote your academia, you dont vote your NGOs, you dont vote foreign policy, you dont vote international law.
Your population is propagandized by the PMC/intelligentsia and then they are given some show to legitimice their rule.
In non democratic governments your ruling class is held accountable, in democracy they switch public faces each 4 years