I live in the UK buddy! Here is what I see of democracy, UK PM, voted in by less than 100k pensioners, at the same time, outside my office here in London we have a church that operates as a food bank! Tell me, who is being disingenuous at this stage? People who just cry democracy as Casus Belli to destroy their own city (heck even other people's countries), or would you rather try to look for the actual underlying problems? From what I've seen, democracy is certainly not doing a good job at that.

Brainwashed, yeah, I agree with Mark Twaine: If You Don’t Read the Newspaper You Are Uninformed, If You Do Read the Newspaper You Are Misinformed

That quote about the misinformed part is certainly true in the west (or at least the UK where I live).