democracy is a scam because when something goes wrong the government is blamed but the government behind the government (oligarchs, technocrats, billionaires, financiers) are never held to account. instead, all that happens is "we the people", if we use the american's constitutional language, vote for the opposing party and the cycle of corruption continues. autocracy, monarchy and/or direct democracy is better because if something goes wrong the god emperor is blamed, and if the mistake is fatal enough, the people rise up and dipose the dictator who is ultimately responsible. as complex systems complex due to the growing incompetence crisis, central government will increasingly become more authoritarian, until their incompetence is held to account, and they are ultimately diposed. then state lines will become blurred, kingdoms will form, in coordination with new non-state monopolies on violence and control, and we will enter into a new dark age. this will probably happen across the western world in 2150+, where generational dysgenics will create a global iq of <~80, in a world where complex systems require >85iq, leading to infrastructure break down.