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>You put that in quotation marks
To avoid 4chan method of quoting while insisting it's MY take on your answer.

>not actually talking to me
Oh I am, but to me you are one of those people who said dumb thing, then do not even consider they could be wrong.

You can hardly call my point a strawman and then push things like:
>democracies are CHOOSING autocratic practices to maintain control as political divides widen
Which is disingenuous because you likely attribute to autocracy things that have always been necessary in democracies along the double meaning of "maintain control" which imply the power is always top-down, never bottom-up.

So I persist saying you are only applying to democracy scale problem that apply to everything else.
Dictatorship would have top-down problems, russian-style, where no one do what's needed, because only the top must decide.

>Wrong, it's because people who live in different regions lead very different lifestyles and have different priorities.
That's definitely typical anti-system mindset, the belief that you are entitled to <whatever> on the basis of proximity.
Civilization 101 is to put resources in common to achieve something greater, and the mistake is to ignore that global problems require global solutions.
>over slavery, and at that point the population was even smaller.
Just taking this example, only trolls would defend to legalize slavery locally because some people want it, it's a question way too fundamental.
Nowadays, we have less and less we can leave to "lifestyles" without causing problems.

>that is the entire point of it.
Again, typical anti-democracy mindset, pretend that's on purpose before drifting toward other rational if we accepted this as fact.
Proper democracies do meant to act as fast and efficiently as possible, and it can.
Distributed power exist to come up with the BEST solution by pooling more opinions.

And a Galatic democracy would avoid most problems related to resources.