I believe because democracies don't work: politicians are merely entertaining people whom have spare time to take notice.
The people who really govern counties are the people who foot the bill; the people who ask people to stand for elections.

Prime Ministers are selected for facial images, to allow cartoonists to create cartoon images that entertain news paper readers.
The history of leaders has cartoons characters embarrassing images, should show the level of intellectual ability of voters. That being said, I wouldn't want a real democracy to exist.
Better to have hidden selected number of people, corrupt rich people can't bribe; other countries and corrupt organisations can't threaten.

A small number of elected politicians can take over the law making process; make deals that create little positive progress in society.

Year 1600 land owner democracy was advancing land owner interests, while repressing peasant interests into slave labour rebellious activities. That's the argument I was told by an RN radio guest speaker, to defend ruling classes real controls over everything.
A supporting argument can be seen in a 1970 movie entitled "Cromwell".

Rhrosty, when a company wish to build one of your solar thermal plants, & sell their power on the open market, I'll cheer. However, when they want loan guarantees, subsidies, & guarantees of giving their power preference over coal fired competitors, they can go jump.

Obviously nuclear plants are the way for us to go, but we might have to lock up quite a few Greenpeace & other ratbags to be able to build & run them.

The time will come of course. The greenies became much less anti dam when Brisbane was running out of water. Even the inner city chattering class will be crying for power when their high rise elevators don't run.

Meanwhile our best option is coal. Get rid of the false added costs attempting to make alternatives look reasonable, & coal is still w3ay cheaper than the rest