> true believers in Democracy will say, "We'll just vote out the bad ones". How is that working out?

Better than no democracy at all. I think anyone can see the problems with it.

I'll never get tired of saying it: politicians are the same as the citizens that vote them in. In India they won't vote out corrupt politicians because the citizenry is corrupt itself.

Let’s just say education might be an issue.

It's cultural, and I'm not sure I agree that it's an issue. Different cultures behave in different ways.

I think there is some truth in this.

Politicians distribute huge sums of corrupt money to poor and lower middle class population just before elections.

And your average Indian would love to get a government job that has scope of corruption.

All in all you have culture where corruption in normalized.

Give the country and its democracy some credit (Indian here).

We’ve voted out charismatic leaders, we’ve voted in huge coalitions, we’ve ignored sympathy waves after political assassinations, power transfers have been uniformly peaceful since we gained independence.

If this cultural/endemic corruption at work, I think most people in most countries would prefer this to whatever oligarchy, junta, theocracy, ruler-for-life-god-on-earth-ocrasy they suffer under.

India should be copying China from the foundation -- since Deng.

European citizens voted in genociders. According to this logic, europeans were also genociders

As someone said, Democracy is bad but not as bad as the other options.