I'll probably get flamed, but I have a hard time seeing how democracy can be the best system.

For democracy to work, the people voting must be knowledgeable about the topics at hand, they must actively seek information, and the must have the brain capacity to process said information.

I believe we are to lazy and stupid for that, to be honest.

I can take myself as example. I am clearly smarter than the average joe (you might disagree, but humor me please), and I do believe I take more interest in politics than the average citizen. I read up, check sources and so on. But heck, I can in NO way in hell know if Sweden gains from being part of the EU, if social security is more important than more jobs and so on.

And if I cant say for sure, how would less able and interested people have a clue?

Recently we did a study at my university. some thousand people voting afterwards got to vote again, but this time they didnt vote for a party, instead they had to choose between the different partys agendas without being told which was which.

Now, about 30% didnt cast the same vote! This means that many people votes for something because their parents do, out of habbit, or whatever.

I dont know, lately I've just given up on democracy, we're just to dumb as a species to handle it.

Am I wrong here? I seriosly think that democracy has come down to whoever has the most rethoricly able representatives, and is that the best way to decide the future of countries?

Now, granted I dont have another solution to offer, but let's try and not go into "what would be better", let's ONLY discuss if democracy in its current form is working.

Afterwards we can brainstorm better solutions;)

Thank you for your time.