The people with the real power (Senate, Supreme Court, Federal Reserve) are not elected. Vote != Power. The more concentrated power is, the more likely you are

The people with the real power (Senate, Supreme Court, Federal Reserve) are not elected. Vote != Power. The more concentrated power is, the more likely you are to have a really favorable or really unfavorable opinion of The Boss. A dictator you agree with is so much better than democracy. The thing is that a dictator you do not agree with is much, much worse than democracy. When things are bad, you are arguably better off with someone who will force the right decisions. Imagine if a dictator outlawed non-renewable sources of energy overnight. Significant short term pain, with (likely) tremendous long term gain for society. Instead, we all come to the consensus that everything is okay in moderation (gas, coal, etc.). Now, no one person has the power to fix our hardest problems. And democracy seems to breed zero-sum thinking with a focus on competition among political parties. Why not try to work together to solve the problems we face?