[Bendy]

> I do think democracy, the way it currently works, has a problem. It doesn't seem to be able to actually solve problems anymore.

I agree with you and this is because democracy is terminally on the defensive. Which is alas, a losing strategy.

Technological advances (accelerated by capitalism) have brought ever increasing power to the individual and private organizations that the state has to run like a red queen introducing more and more legislation, regulation and increasingly byzantine bureaucracy backed up with the sorcery of propaganda and fiscal–monetary policies to fortify its paranoid self against the imaginary, and very soon to be real horde. “A dying society accumulates laws like a dying man accumulates remedies” because you can’t be under siege forever. “The bomber always gets through”.