UK is substantially more democratic than the US.

- We just changed our PM, despite his party having a historic majority.

- Parliament routinely rebels against the government, and backbenchers have a lot of say about the business of government.

- We have a number of upstart parties; they might be populist, but at least it's not a two-party-forever system.

- We had a coalition government just a few years ago.

- We changed our constitution a few months ago (abolishing hereditary peers) and it was just another news among many.

- We ejected one of the previous PMs for having a party during a lockdown, with a massive scandal before that when the PM accepted a gift of some wallpaper.

Compare and contrast to the ossified and corrupt American system, where the president is openly enriching himself and his family and friends, and there's nothing threatening the presidency. The last amendment was passed half a century ago, and there's zero hope for reform.

Democracy is a living, breathing system of government, not a number of checkboxes like "can I shoot a gun for fun" or "can I call someone N-word online". It's important to see the forest for the trees.

Quite the opposite, the problem is democracy:

"In democracy, one side always wins and makes its opponents illegal."

“The claim to legality renders every rebellion and counter-measure an injustice and a legal violation or ‘illegality.’ If legality and illegality can be arbitrarily at the disposal of the majority, then the majority can, above all, declare their domestic competitors illegal, that is, hors-la-loi… Whoever controls 51 percent would be able legally to render the remaining 49 percent illegal… and to treat partisan opponents like common criminals, who are then perhaps reduced to kicking their boots against the locked door.”

Carl Schmitt, Legality and Legitimacy

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