Thanks for mentioning Liechtenstein. Have never informed myself, how Liechtenstein is governed.

I am with you when it comes to the application of an ideal democratic system it is har to implement. Hard since all people who hold a lot of power today will loose it, when it is renovated towards ideal Democracy. So no question always when a country does this people with power will invest a lot of propaganda and advertisment in every form to create an idea of unorganized chaos, that could come with democratisation.

Only that in practice many very democratic groups work very well. When looking on Projects like Debian or Arch or even big companies like Google, which are successful and give their employees a lot of freedom in their manner to work.

And since I was listening to a podcas about Niklas Luhmanns Systemtheorie https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systemtheorie_(Luhmann)

I am quiet sure that ell types of authoritarian systems are to some part a ponzi system. And this part grows until it comes to a forced collapse.

This since every system has its reason to exist fore and another part that is invested to keep the system in place (defend it). Every person that gets to a lot of power gets the opportunity to use some of it for his or her personal wealth, which is a kind of extortion of those who pay for it. This part of extortion can grow untilthere are more people lifing from extortion or corruption than those who create. And authoritarian regimes are chronically lacking selfcorrection, since critics are silenced most of the times until there is only yes man.