Democracy fails...

[Fidel_Castronaut]

Democracy itself is a term you can play fast and loose with. I mean we can bracket out direct and representative for brevity and just stick with representative. But democracy doesn't exist in a vacuum; (liberal) democracies are arguably the most globalised and inclusive in the world and have adaptive legislative, executive and judicial structures that adapt as best they can with this. As someone else on here said, 'democracy' has the potential to become a puppet of the majority but that's precisely why there are political safeguards that augment and restrict the general operations of the tiers of structures (and agents) that exist within it (one obvious and easy example being, say, secularism).

There's so much political, social, psychological and economic discourse that goes into running and assessing an entity as confusing and multifaceted as a democracy that simply saying 'it's failed' is parsimonious to the level of being lunacy.