It might be possible to engineer a type of democracy that solves this problem, partly by combining two seemingly opposite ideas. For instance, imagine a society

It might be possible to engineer a type of democracy that solves this problem, partly by combining two seemingly opposite ideas. For instance, imagine a society that has frequent elections, but for long terms. An example would be a society which elects 9 people a year, for terms of 11 years, thus establishing a legislature of 99 people. The frequent elections would be a vent for all of the populist rage that we see, but the long terms would mean that, once people are elected, they have plenty of time to get real work done, without having to worry about re-election. The system would work even better if the legislature was stripped of all power save the power to appoint people to committees, and then "the intellectuals" (people with a lot of training) could work to either control or advise those committees. Those committees should be far enough removed from the populist rage that the committee members should be free to focus on delivering good government. I wrote about this here: https://demodexio.substack.com/p/thesis-1-there-is-one-correct-way-5ad https://demodexio.substack.com/p/thesis-1-there-is-one-corre... On this topic, I also wrote: "In our highly specialized and complex world, all real political power needs to move to specialized committees" https://demodexio.substack.com/p/why-have-politics-in-the-usa-become https://demodexio.substack.com/p/why-have-politics-in-the-us...