Democracy is failing, first election of Donald Trump twice, a finale between two olde men, Trump and Biden, the succes of an candidate created by TikTok in România: Georgescu. The eternisation of Orban and Erdogan at the helm of their countries. Right wingers having succes everywhere. EU leaders that are not elected.
All these are symptoms of a system that is not working properly.
What is democracy?
Democratic Republic of North Korea is not democratic, while the monarchies of UK, Netherlands,Belgium,Spain are.
So the democracy is not in the name of the regime, but a system in which decisions are take by a colective, directly or indirectly through temporary representatives. All European monarchs are just figure heads.
The simplies form of democracy is a group of people who decide a course of action to solve a problem.
Let's suppose that a group of Athenians want to build a wall to protect against Persians.
The problem is observable for all.
All they are affected.
They can understand their problem, and know how to fix it.
They can evaluate the results of building the wall because every Athenian build his own house.
They have moral and patriotism and they vote in the best interest of the city.
Because the problem is observable, understandable, citizens have expertise and they don't have incentive to cheat, they will take a good decision.
Let's take another problem.
Spies inform that persians are gathering a large army and the best solution is to attack first.
First the problem is observable by few, and citizens are not feeling the impact.
Even if they have all the information, they can't understand that all the scattered information shows that persians are preparing for attack.
How many have expertise to lead an army? Maybe 100 people. If the rest is against those people can't do nothing. They have to use rethoric, and the common denominator: emotion, to convince the Athenians to act.
Maybe some merchants have businesses with Persians and don't want to jeopardize them, and they vote against attack, and maybe they betray Athens.
The modern democracy has solved some of the problems, but introduced others.
Due to mass-media citizens can observe far away problems.
But mass media is used to manipulate.
Due to universal education citizens can understand better the problem and take a decision
By using a representative democracy and a state bureaucracy, the specialists are taking the right decisions in time.
But this lead to nepotism and corruption.
Intermingling of the rich citizens with undemocratic regimes, make those to undermine democratic interests.
In conclusion in order to have a functional modern democracy mass media must inform, school must educate, competent people must be promoted, representatives must respect their electors and rich people shouldn't do business with undemocratic countries.
