This situation feels dumb. I feel like I am watching idiots cheer on someone doing parkor and that person getting his teeth smashed on a wall. Like, what is the point?
"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard."
- H. L. Mencken
"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter."
- Winston Churchill [disputed]
What's your alternative?
I'm serious.
(Mine is multi-member ranked voting (NOT IRV)).
"Democracy" is the form of government; you are speaking of voting systems, which are an implementation detail, and not in the same natural category. "Alternatives to democracy" are things like despotism, monarchy, communism, fascism etc.
Aristocratic republics have been doing quite well for some time: Florence, Venice, Genoa in the Mediterranean, much of the Hanseatic league and places like Novgorod, and later the Dutch Republic, in the north.