Yeah, let's try "a representative republic with separation of powers and a federated system of control" instead of just "democracy" I'd add in something along t

Yeah, let's try "a representative republic with separation of powers and a federated system of control" instead of just "democracy" I'd add in something along the lines of a bicameral legislature with half of it representing the aristocracy. Nothing went wrong with democracy. It was always broken. That's why it has to be qualified so much to work right. Put differently, people are broken. But they are broken in predictable ways. Systems of governance and control need to accept the ways people are broken and make them work for the security of the system, instead of just trusting that whoever is elected is somehow going to run things. That's whacked. You need a system of government, not a democracy. What the more complex systems of democratic representation are finding is that the more they move towards a "pure" democracy, the more dysfunctional their systems are becoming as well. Democracy is not an answer. Never was. Unless you like mobs.