Democracy works and is awesome. But all systems require people to make them work. Families, clubs, etc can all fail if people don't do their parts.
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I wish someone told our elected representatives who don’t represent us …
Love it, pal. That’s exactly the point, or rather, those are exactly the points! Two of them, to be precise: participation and scale! Democracy only works if everyone actually exercises their right and duty to participate. That’s the first point I take from your answer; the other is “clubs, families, etc.” That is scale. Direct democracy works wonderfully on a small scale, but with 100 million people in a country, and everyone expected to participate in the discussion leading to a decision, now that’s difficult. On a large scale, we won’t be able to avoid representation. But career politicians are the death of democracy! Those who represent the people should of course receive compensation for lost income, but it must be TRANSPARENT AND COME SOLELY FROM THE SOVEREIGN, i.e. the people. Greed and the lobbying that goes hand in hand with it are the true enemies of democracy. A kind of continued pay during leave of absence, paid for by the state, with the amount of the allowances determined by voters based on performance. Well, what do you think politicians could accomplish in four years under such a system?