Starship down
The problem with democracy is the people. Democracy hucksters will argue that their self-interests are best served if they are asked about them frequently, by politicians pledged to serve; and that as things like war and civil violence are never in their interest, peace and all the other goods of nature will prevail. However, as mediaeval Christendom was convinced, the people are evil. They are not just predominantly evil, but the thing itself since the fall of man. When consulted, the people’s psychotic qualities often come to the fore. This is true more generally, in what we like to think are venial or lesser evils; “me bads.” These are confused with things that aren’t actually evil. Conversely, often the people demand things that they don’t really want, such as genuine liberty, equality, and fraternity. Anyone with an ounce of intelligence or integrity knows that they actually want to have all the good things, the consumable luxuries, and more of them than anyone else, and would prefer that the others — the strangers of all kinds but also their friends — were punished. Too, being brutish and moronic, they are instinctively divisive, as not only the “best” Christians, but also Thomas Hobbes, was eager to point out. And given a Saviour, sent demonstrably from God in Heaven, our “free choice” will be to crucify Him. This is the human, or humanist, way.
It is why all the wise and thoughtful political philosophers have rejected democracy, and why it is overruled in detail, in all reasonable courts of law. They aren’t glib, they pursue justice. Rhetorically, of course, democracy is fostered, but only among the “experts,” who are no philosophers. That is to say, not even fake philosophers and sophists, but paid servants of the devil, who make their business the accretion of power; they are invariably the loudest puffers of democracy. They usually know exactly what they are doing, although some of them are insane.
Politicians are, in other words, following their self-interest, remorselessly, and naturally in opposition to the interests of everyone else. That is why being a democratic politician is the quickest way to accumulate wealth, and why only the very richest politicians can be sincere.
I don’t see how this situation will change, however, in the foreseeable future.