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CMV: Democracy today lets demagogic pseudo intellectuals come into power through elections where unaware majority votes based on intuition rather than rational critical thinking.

Democracy is flawed on many levels. Democracy today lets demagogic pseudo intellectuals come into power through elections where unaware majority votes based on intuition rather than rational critical thinking. If there's a form of governance, where only a few learned individuals decide on a non-tyrannous intellectual as their leader, then a nation adopting such a method of governance can prosper at a much greater rate than a nation where "democratically" elected incompetent leader struggles to find the balance. 
The whole point of democracy when it got established must have been to give the general public a sense of power and chance at not being subjected to tyrannous oppression. But, when did it become about demagoguery, propaganda and corruption? 
How can democracy save the nation? Or, rather, how can a nation today save democracy?
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> If there's a form of governance, where only a few learned individuals decide on a non-tyrannous intellectual as their leader, then a nation adopting such a method of governance can prosper

The problem is with who defines 'learned', 'intellectual' and 'prosper'. For example, a theocracy can fit this description easily, and they will even tell you that they "prosper" even if everyone's dirt poor, half the population is discriminated against, and technology, health and education are virtually nonexistent, because that way of life ensures everyone there gets to heaven (and at a median age of 36, too!).

Democracy, on the other hand, can give power to demagogic pseudo-intellectuals, but if the democracy is strong enough, even when such individual is in power, their capacity to do damage as substantial as described above is very limited.