Very good synthesis. IMHO democracy is indeed unfeasible at nation-wide scale. See the only country who said 'up yours' to the banksters in the crisis of 2008 was Iceland. In fact politics comes from POLIS, city. Democracy is feasible as direct democracy and with citizen taking turns (not necessarily elected, even randomized) in public offices. The national level should only be about securing a good price for resources and coordinating an army/police/emergency response force. The international level should only be about keeping nations in check so they don't make war to each other. Democracy is Feasible, but feasible here means very difficult, since it requires Citizens and not amoebas. The current systems requires amoebas instead, and the current culture is about producing whiny, entitled, cogs in the machine. The same hands that gave you a wealthy middle class, money and pollution, will give you environmentalism (a way to say, YOU are the cancer on earth), social justice (the poorest steal from the poor, while the powerful ones print money on demand) and get the 'revolution' to it's ending ('revolution' is a very precise astronomical term, that implies the end coincides with the beginning. Just with different guys as masters).