Good point about democracy being not so much broken as fractious... but it seems that the youngest are usually the ones most eager to push for political change

Good point about democracy being not so much broken as fractious... but it seems that the youngest are usually the ones most eager to push for political change against entrenched interests (perhaps because the youngest are not entrenched yet). I expect that stems from a person growing up being told that a system works in a particular idealized way (that bill-becomes-a-law cartoon) and then discovering as they begin to interact with it as they enter adulthood that it actually works in quite different way (legalized bribery). That sort of clash of ideal-against-reality motivates them to try to improve the system back towards the ideal. If they were never taught the ideal, or worse, told that the way things work now is how its always been, would we rob ourselves of any opposing societal force beyond armed insurrection that could improve things?