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Although many people including Francis Fukuyama had given up the concept
of “The End of History, ” American elites still hold on Western
democracy as The End of History system.

Democracy means rule by the people. Democracy is therefore as good and
as bad as the people themselves. Knowledgeable and capable people leads
to good democracy. Ignorant and incapable people leads to bad democracy.
Plato thought Monarchy was more advance than Democracy. Plato was right
because the quality of the people at his time and hundreds of years
after him was in general VERY POOR. They were neither knowledgeable nor
capable collectively speaking most of the time.

Social stability and associated wealth during the subsequent centuries
allowed more and more people to receive formal and informal education in
various parts of Europe. People with improved quality then became the
foundation of representative democracy. This explains the success of
Representative Democracy.

At present, people in many part of the world are a lot more
knowledgeable and capable than representative democracy has assumed.
Hence citizens should no longer be treated as Brainless Black Boxes
which could only cough up either Candidate X or Candidate Y as answers
concerning their country once every few years. To the extent that people
of Western liberal democracy are not more involved and contribute to
their democracy, Western Democracy is anachronistic just like Plato’s
democracy is anachronistic.

As is, China’s democratic centralism is a lot more democratic than
Western democracy.