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I don't disagree with the patient's diagnosis, but my issue is with what would happen if we were living in, as you put it, "a functional democracy".

Contemporary democracy isn't new. Has it ever delivered what you claim it would if it were functional?

I could be wrong, but I can't think of a historical period where it did.

Seems to me like it's working as designed, if not what people think it's designed to do.