[mike4ty4]

An important question that needs asking is what happens if we run into a situation where that "slowness" of democracy gets more people killed and only a well-paced solution with some cadence to it could do the job (not "super fast", but like say a major change with a 1 year debate period and 10 year implementation period sustained steady progress)? Not arguing for a dictatorship, but out-of-the-box innovative thinking to invent a much more novel/radical political system.

[Angostura]

I think we saw the answer to that in February/March 2021. Apart from the USA where the situation was politicised by a rather special president, most advanced democracies moved remarkably quickly to institute unprecedented emergency measures in theface of the pandemic. Democratic processes were temporarily simplified with the executive taking more power for a short time.