The Crimeans voted to leave Ukraine and join Russia. As a result, they got international sanctions, because democracy is good only when it’s pro-Western. When it’s pro-Russian, it’s not democratic.

The Donetsk and Lugansk regions voted to leave Ukraine and join Russia. They didn’t get to join Russia, but they got wrecked by Ukraine.

The British voted to leave EU. This vote is basically ignored by the political elites, delaying things to the point where the population will get bored and accept the futility of any such move.

The Americans voted for Obama because they were bored with the Bush era perpetual war. Then they voted for Trump because they were bored with the Obama era perpetual war, socialism, immigration and pro-Muslim stance.

The Catalans voted to leave Spain. Their vote was suppressed by police violence, their leaders arrested and their will ignored.

The Kurds want a state, which is logical since the state borders in the region were drawn arbitrarily in the colonial times, and their territory was split between Turkey, Iraq and Syria. Their will is ignored and the only thing those three states agree upon is that the Kurds must never be allowed to have a state.

Wonderful thing, democracy.

The problem is, democracy is invented as a toy for the masses, as something that will convince them that their input counts and that they are not ruled over against their will, that they elect their own government. It was a trick that served one major purpose: to pacify the masses and trick them into changing the government by voting, instead of just killing the bad leaders along with their families. As a result, an elaborate system was invented to manipulate the masses into electing one of your pre-selected candidates. In case of Iran, the system is not very subtle: a religious council has to approve a candidate before the elections, so you’re guaranteed to end up with a Muslim fanatic as a leader. In the West, you have the media to perform this role, and the masses usually obey, and when they don’t, as in case of Trump, the consternation of the elites shows what a sham representative democracy actually is: the people actually dared to elect someone contrary to their instructions and now they have a problem.

So, how long before the masses figure out that democracy doesn’t work, and they have to return to the time tried method of firing squads and hanging, for the bastards who betrayed their trust?