Democracy is not a vehicle for correctness or efficiency.
It's entire point is to distribute political power to a wide powerbase with a constant churn.
This is to disable known pathologies of entrenched power bases and to discourage social stratification.
Since modern states don't have an entrenched hereditary aristocracy we don't really have a concept of what democracy shields us from, since we've not had to suffer from it - except when we do, we recognize it and shun it.
The social idea was that aristocracy had to be in power since they were the ones with the education. After public schooling became a things, suddenly just being able to read and write is not a distinguishing feature, and having an explicit hereditary elite became a socially untenable construct.
That's not to say that a human society is a fair playing field - but it's not as unjust as in past centuries.
Similarly to vacciness, when democracy works as intended you see only the "bad parts".
It's entire point is to distribute political power to a wide powerbase with a constant churn.
This is to disable known pathologies of entrenched power bases and to discourage social stratification.
Since modern states don't have an entrenched hereditary aristocracy we don't really have a concept of what democracy shields us from, since we've not had to suffer from it - except when we do, we recognize it and shun it.
The social idea was that aristocracy had to be in power since they were the ones with the education. After public schooling became a things, suddenly just being able to read and write is not a distinguishing feature, and having an explicit hereditary elite became a socially untenable construct.
That's not to say that a human society is a fair playing field - but it's not as unjust as in past centuries.
Similarly to vacciness, when democracy works as intended you see only the "bad parts".