User blog comment:GrandMethuselah67/Lore-Sheet: The Technocratic Coalition of Humankind/@comment-4867780-20170705213734/@comment-4867780-20170716055137

You nailed it quite well ^ ^ The biggest issue of Democracy is that most voters lack the self-control and rationality required for such a system to really work. Throw in its inherently competitive nature, and you end up with a neverending miasma of lies, manipulation and blatant mistakes, where the greater good is constantly sabotaged both by the greed of politicians and the foolishness of voters.

A strong and unified leadership will always outdo a meek and divided one, provided it is competent enough and durably has the people's best interests at heart. "United we are strong" as they say, unfortunately unity requires submiting to a greater system and following orders, while we usually prefer pursuing our own interest whenever possible, so people are only really united when they have no choice about it.

The Night Watchman was a brillant check-and-balance idea, kudos to you ^ ^ Now there's hopping it doesn't malfunction eventually and turn into the same totalitarian superpower it was meant to fight, with Malcom having to defeat it for the sake of the people XD That would be an interesting roles reversal, definitely some juicy Holywood scenario there.