The system is not at fault. It is people who fail the system. Even the best system can become a miserable failure in the hands of uncivilised people who manage it. Blaming the system is like beating around the bush. People who manage the system are the real culprits. Only in a civilised any system can function effectively.

Ezhil.

Democracy is actually like "spell-check": type Ezhil, for example, and before your very eyes, Ezhil is converted to Ezekiel.
What were your choices in that particular action? The choice available to you though, is to convert Ezekiel back into the original input form, Ezhil.

But the difficulty is, of the billions of people living globally under democratic conventions, which two of those people would agree to what form democracy should take?

So the problem with democracy is who controls the outcomes.
Simple answer to that one is politicians.
Then it becomes a simple question of what is a politician by definition.

Firstly, politicians are corrupt. No politician is pure in his view, or even necessarily motivated to protecting democracy.

Secondly, politicians are awash with vested interests. Compromised.

The aeroplane of democracy is really in autopilot; adjusting to the whims of the weather, just like the guiding forces of politicians, who we perceive as being in the pilot seat, and every now and again, taking back control from the autopilot, and making little personal adjustments attempting to make his and those involved in his vested interest circle, comfortable.

So you see, democracy is doomed, as is any other "system" which may replace it.
Doomed because at the heart of human nature is a control freak, always to a greater or lesser degree than his fellow human neighbor.

Humans a greedy little creatures that want everything for themselves. We once had a guiding star called Christianity, which if allowed to influence the human destiny, would alter its joint psychology, and encompass the concerns of others as a priority to our own selfish and vested interest motivation.

Dan

Dan,

"But the difficulty is, of the billions of people living globally under democratic conventions, which two of those people would agree to what form democracy should take?"

Me and my wife.

Is Mise

http://youtu.be/9B9rjRzlWtU

Democracy at work..."let's agree to disagree".: Domestic bliss, (almost).

Dan.

what form democracy should take?"
Is Mise,
There's only one form of Democracy & no country is deploying it !

"The system is not at fault. It is people who fail the system".

That's stating the bleeding obvious. So what's the solution? Do away with people? Import Martians? What? Because it's a dead cert that people aren't going to change.