On the assumption that lobbying, bribing, gerrymandering, institutionele capture, legal capture and the general disfunction of first past the post systems don’t get in the way.
Of all the systems of governance, democracy has always been the one which most respects and enables its peoples and the least likely to devolve into autocracy. There is a reason that France and the USA, for all their flaws, have some of the oldest constitutions still in use on earth, for example.
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In an autocracy like China that would be true, but in the western world they mostly practice Democracy.
On the assumption that lobbying, bribing, gerrymandering, institutionele capture, legal capture and the general disfunction of first past the post systems don’t get in the way.
Lol, you’re one of those screaming “both sides bad” and rejecting any progress has ever been made.
Things demonstrably get better or worse depending on how people vote, better slowly over time, and therefor it is fact that democracy is working.
You forget that people can democratically vote themselves into an autocracy. This was already described in ancient Greece as anacyclosis.
Of all the systems of governance, democracy has always been the one which most respects and enables its peoples and the least likely to devolve into autocracy. There is a reason that France and the USA, for all their flaws, have some of the oldest constitutions still in use on earth, for example.