What democracy has done is try and take power away from disparate parties, and concentrate much of it in the hands of an elected body. This doesn't always work

What democracy has done is try and take power away from disparate parties, and concentrate much of it in the hands of an elected body. This doesn't always work well, but this main idea is a good one. Government, like any large human undertaking, is an ongoing endeavor that has to be constantly maintained and reformed. But fighting it rather than fixing it is a terrible notion. So we've built a system where large and powerful lobbies represented by small groups of people fight against each other for their cut of the nation's resources at the expense of other small groups and individuals. It doesn't sound like that great an idea to me...