We've moved almost beyond democracy. Really giving that drunk homeless nigger who lives off welfare, or that crazy cat lady who thinks sex is a magical thing granted by wishes the same vote as people who contribute to society, who study the issues and partake in the political process is...well fucking stupid. But denying the vote to anyone is also asking for trouble, universal suffrage is the norm after all.
We need a new system of government. Hell we need a whole new social system but no ones been able to come up with one that matches both our technological and social progress. As things stand we can't last and sooner or later shit will break. You can't have 90% of the world's wealth controlled by 2% of the population nor can we do the retarded communism/socialism shit that we KNOW doesn't work.
We need new social ideas to match our new ever changing world. To think that some people, no matter how smart or far seeing, could come up with a perfect political system that would last forever is nuts. I revere the Founders and the society they created but shit has changed so much, we have moved so far away from their world that I don't think we can keep using that system as is for much longer.