My honest thought: Democracy is the problem. Democracy created tyranny, bloated government overreach, police state, mass incarceration, state-supported oligarchy, and gave them an aura of legitimacy. Democracy does not truly represent everyone. It has been a failed social experiment.
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And "saving democracy" means going back to the same old dysfunctional partisan politics for and by the moneyed and privileged, and hyped and manipulated elections every 2 years giving the populace an illusion of "people power," then it will inevitably lead to another populist tyranny down the road.