Ok i`ll tell you guys the reality: democracy is a scam. Yes you heard it correctly, democracy is a scam.
The fact that you make the most uninformed, uneducated, dumb herd mentality people to choose the most vicious and shady sociopath tyrant on the voting list is not really my definition of civilized society
See the control freaks will always manipulate the dumb herd to give them more power and take away freedoms, they are highly opportunists and they do everything to gain power.
So by these arguments, voting is just a "keep in the game" scam, whereas people are propagandized that they have freedoms and they should vote for freedoms, whereas voting is just an illusion to choose from the currently available tyrants on the ballot, its simply as that.
People tend to see that voting is useless, and it is, so the voting participation rate goes down, but now in the US they are starting to make it mandatory, how funny that can be
ADDENDUM
Wtf man, an effective government? Thats the last thing you want to have. An effective government is basically a tyrrany, because thats all a government is a control freak command. If it's effective then it has total power and a police state tyrrany.
If it's corrupt then atleast it's loose, yea politicians steal all the money they get, but atleast it's not a total tyrrany. So i'd choose a corrupt government anytime than an efficient one.
The only role a government has is to control and enslave people, those which are the most efficient end up like North Korea or Stalinist Soviet Union.