If the US Constitution is an important model for democracy, yes, elections are a key part of it. Zelenskyy and Biden are elected. Putin is a multi-decade dictator, who ensures that open conversations like this one cannot happen in his country. Is that what you want vs what you have?

I think if you’re going to criticize so completely the system that provides your civil liberties, as is your protected right, you should define the governance system that you prefer and why it would be superior, and allow debate.

Otherwise, this thread sounds like privileged people whining like victims, which is distasteful and just more of what the modern GOP has deteriorated to, or it reads like you’re all members of a Russian Sleeper Cell, lulz.