The answer for that is simple. When the human aspect fails, like in many sports where referees cannot keep up with the game, a technological aspect must come in to make up for human deficiencies.
This could mean a lot of things. One way it can be interpreted as is controlling the transaction of money very strictly through the use of technology to ensure that no one is making billions in bribes. Remove paper money altogether. That would also help with tax-related crimes, and other crimes because you could track each transaction. That's just a single suggestion.
The point of it is that technology makes up for human weakness.
I don't think democracy is necessarily failing, just becoming less efficient. Here in the US, I see that the whole "checks and balances" thing isn't really working out at the moment, but our people aren't protesting about it violently or nonviolently.
Besides, it'll probably just sort itself out once we switch a president or two.
Not protesting? I struggle to come up with any modern day democracy where the people are more unhappy about their government than in the USA.
If you really think these problems, which have been around for more than one president, are going to magically fix themselfes, then maybe the problem is not the presidents or the politicans, but actually the voters.
then maybe the problem is not the presidents or the politicans, but actually the voters.
Of course it's been declining slowly, that's just how it works. All we had was a bad line of leaders in the past couple decades. Won't take much to deal with the problems they caused, but congress is a little divided lately, so it could take a while.
Just to clear things up, the public hardly votes on anything at this point. The electoral college does all the work, and only 8-10 states don't automatically unanimously vote for a certain party.
But it means that dictatorship is the best possible system. Fast decisions, mostly good ones and those decisions won't favor the ones who brought the leader where he or she is currently. In long terms those decisions will favor everyone. I say it again, in long terms.
Our world is too pussy to understand it. And most people probably can't think on their own.
Ok. Two things. AMERICA IS NOT FUCKING DEMOCRATIC. Democracy is when the people have a part in the actual enactment of laws and things that the congress, president, and the supreme court all do. America is a republic. Republic systems are when the people chose somebody to represent them (Barack Obama) and those representives then control what the government does. The thing is, the people are easily influenced by all sorts of things. They end up making a bad choice(If there were any good choices). Opinions also effect it. But, people want these choices. They want that control but also that risk. It's what made america a better place than dictator countries. Without control, they didn't have what they wanted and that prospect of getting that is what makes America the strongest and most capable country in the world (Well in some areas at least).
Second. This sort of thing dis-appreciation happens. As time goes by, people supposedly want "change" as they are beginning to pull every flaw against the government officials. In reality, America would ultimately fail if they tried anything else. Dictatorship and things of that nature are too strict and can't be broken easily. (Uncas. Since when dictatorship been good. Stalin and Hitler. Remember those names). Democracy puts too much pressure on society and most people don't want control. Politicians know what they're doing. People aren't unhappy. They need a reminder of why the "freedom" is their only choice. Only idiots are protesting and that's mostly because of branches of the government, not the government system. Lemme say that again.
People are mad at the branches of the American government and their actions, not the actual government system.
And there you have what I was calling the failure of democracy. You don't get to decide anything and they still pretend that you do. Still all the little sheep are happily accepting that, and in the end companies that ruin our planet run their country, but it's cool because
"at least it's not Hitler, right?"