Everything else is 'influence campaigns' and BS, designed to distract people and keep them inert - and it's doing an effective job!
I agree, but I think that's called 'constitutional democracy'. Democracy can't be mob rule, is another way of looking at it; it can't be 'two wolves and a sheep voting on what's for dinner'.
> In the past there were times when "democracy" won, but society lost: 1789 France, 1933 Germany, 1949 Romania, etc.
Yes, the cardinal sin is someone who uses their power to prevent future democracy (or to oppress the minority).
Suddenly? We've been doing this for 60 years, most particularly, in South America. It's now just made it's way fully into Europe.
> We know how to do it - we've known for generations.
We know how to do mob rule. We're not particularly good at Democracy. Sometimes the two would produce the same outcome and people do not struggle to notice the difference.
Despite this, "democracy is still the worst system of government we know of... except for all the other ones" is still true.
We need to get better at it though because it's not trending in a good direction at the moment. Because it is and will likely always be the best option, we should really be making sure that it works as well as possible and produces the best quality results.