Democracy has worked exceptionally well, relative to any other option, for generations. Far more free, prosperous, and safe and stable. The idea that it's somehow incompetent or incapable or uncertain is bizarre, on a factual basis.

'But Brawndo has what plants crave! It's got electrolytes!' '...Okay - what are electrolytes? Do you know? Yeah. It's what they use to make Brawndo.' 'But why do they use them in Brawndo? What do they do?' 'They're part of what plants crave. 'But why do plants crave them? 'Because plants crave Brawndo, and Brawndo has electrolytes.'

Also: you forgot to disagree with my definition of democracy and basically said "yeah, but this hypocrisy works"? So if the only valid vote is for "the right people", why bother with voting at all? Just put them in charge and be done. That would still be democracy, right?

Do you have a different solution than democracy? We've already tried communism in Romania for like 45 years and it was garbage.

For the parliament election that happened last week, the winning parties of parliament were the establishment parties. They did lose some support compared to 4 years ago, so democracy is definitely working, but they still have reasonable backing by the people.