Democracies are great for preventing tyranny, but they are terrible at reform. Reform often comes from a smaller group of people pioneering a solution among a

Democracies are great for preventing tyranny, but they are terrible at reform. Reform often comes from a smaller group of people pioneering a solution among a smaller more willing population, thus demonstrating to the majority that such solutions work. Democracies are, by definition, ruling by the median intelligence of the group, thus cherry picking a smaller set of the population, you can advance more complex ideas and solutions - hence efforts such as in OP's article.