You did not grasp yet that the system of general democracy is disfunctional in itself. There will always be more of less wise people than there will be of more wise people. Do democracy essentially gives decision power to the less wise people over the more wise people. Basically the more wise people submit to the less wise ones. Where does it lead us? It is evolution in reverse.
However you participate in this system, you end up submitting yourself to the less wise people. It is like doing math in guessing a winning number in a governmental lottery thinking that you are tricking the system.