Democracy sucks. We are a Constitutional Republic. We are not run by a polit-bureau of 9.
We have a system that is being corrupted and is worth fighting for and putting right.
Period.
One of the 3 branches of our federal government is a "polit-bureau of 9" and it functions better than the other two. Our elections are frequent which forces politicians to continually give away free stuff and special favors at taxpayers expense. Every election we go more broke. Public elections are nice in theory but they don't work for long in practice. When the USA was founded, elections were limited to men that owned land, a workable design. What we have now is nothing close to that.