I agree the actual system is rule by cowards.
But i don't agree democracy is bad.
I don't think one leader with all his deviance is better, like we see in country you don't even have the right to speak freely.
A real democracy (i said real), is just a way to live together including people who want to live together.
If you don't want to have school for your child you are free to teach then, if you don't want medicine, you are free to do by your own, if you don't want all structures like roads, firefight, etc you are free to don't participate to it and stay aside to live by your own in a peace of land you own.
I think it is not the democracy the problem of all system bad sides.
It is just the way bad leaders get the power with it. And we are also the reason why they have so much power.
We need a kind of democracy 2.0 to don't let the power to a few man that don't care about the others.
Power is corrupting humans, we need to find a way to decentralize it to avoid this. Like #nostr already do
It is just my point of view. Thanks for sharing yours.