Thread: Bерите в демократию? / Do you believe in Democracy?

Just wanting to start a discussion on whether people here have faith in democracy, and think it is generally the best way to run your own country, or other countries..
Cast your vote in the poll and explain your view!

I used to believe in democracy, but at the moment I feel as it is a bit of a hoax.

-In most countries, almost half of the eligible population do not vote - either because they are not qualified, or because the do not care...
-In many countries like the USA or UK there are only two political parties that there is any point voting for - and they are both quite similar.
-Democracy means that important decisions may be stalled
-Votes can be "bought" either through expensive marketing campaigns that sway the opinions of gullible people, control of media or by locking people into positions of dependency that means that they are forced to vote for whatever party upholds the privileges that they are dependant on economically.
-In some "democracies", like Russia, many people have no faith in the democracy...
-Many people are simply not sufficiently intelligent or well educated to cast a reasonably informed vote.


But are there any alternatives that are superior?
Is democracy the lesser of two evils?

Hoping for a discussion in Russian and English with the views of people from different parts of the world!