And what if the system doesn't work?
Your argument has the presupposition that the political system is a working democracy. Stability, and security are not a given for all.
Your argument has the presupposition that the political system is a working democracy. Stability, and security are not a given for all.
The only reason that this doesn't happen more often is the electorate is mostly disengaged from the races that do matter, and tied down by partisanship.
What are we supposed to do, switch from democracy to vigilante murder as a system of government?
Plenty of sensible policies have popular support in America and have done for a while. Americans are not as dumb as their politics would suggest.
The path to improving it does not go via vigilante murder.
Some form of immigration control now has majority support. Should people go round executing immigrants because that would be more directly democratic?
Democracy generally works well, and America becoming a poster child for "Why Democracy is bad" is a development that could lead to real horrors, at home and across the globe.
You don't have to condone political violence to support more democracy to avoid it. Even in nations, like the US, where political violence is celebrated every single day.
Perhaps the problem is that democracy isn't really any different than any other form of country-level government. Perhaps we lost for ever when our ancestors started founding cities a few thousand years ago.