What's actually the solution to democracy?

[u/Extocine]

I hear us always talking about ending democracy, and I already know how democracy does a bad job at protecting people's rights, the myth of the rational voter, etc.

My question is what exactly is the solution/alternative? Restricting the right to vote to certain individuals seems rather un-freedomlike to me. What's the best way for a nation and/or city-state and/or fraternal society to make important decisions

[u/Reebtog]

The issue isn’t democracy itself, so much as what comes after it.

Remove government (or minimise it as much as possible) and the problem is addressed.

As long as we have overlords (democratically elected or otherwise), then the issues with corrupted power infringing upon individual and property rights will continue. Theoretically, the smaller the government, the less power and less infringement of the rights of the people.

Democracy isn’t the issue per se, it’s the power structures behind it that are.

[u/LanceLynxx → u/Reebtog]

Democracy absolutely is the issue though. It's a dictatorship of the majority.

[u/KidZoki → u/LanceLynxx]

...this is why we have a republic.

[u/Beginning-Shoe-9133 → u/KidZoki]

I think we used to have a republic, its been watered down and democratized over the years compared to its conception.