Read the biography of Abraham Lincoln.. we really created a system where any random fuck born in a shack could assume dictatorial control of the country... Surprise, it's a completely unreasonable madhouse.

If democracy ever worked, it was in a homogenous, ultrareligious, ultraliterate white society, which had natural borders making foreign invasion impossible, and where only a small fraction of successful men could vote. But that led to the slippery slope of constantly granting more rights and votes in exchange for electoral victories.