I thought democracy was doomed not long after I first learned about it as I had already seen how 'well' people check that their beliefs match with reality. I th

I thought democracy was doomed not long after I first learned about it as I had already seen how 'well' people check that their beliefs match with reality. I thought I was wrong (partly to keep my sanity), that there must be some system that keeps it stable. Nowadays it is clear I was wrong - the clown show of current global democracy is nothing like what I imagined. I thought it was going to be smart, greedy leaders with complex lies that are hard to check, but instead, people are being robbed and the processes keeping them alive and fed are being destroyed all in the open, there are mostly no complex lies or smart leaders involved. It's hard to blame AI for something that was obvious three decades ago.