I shall make a bold attempt to defend democracy here.

With democracy being a very people-reliant system of government, the people of a society are the crux in anywhere democracy is being practised. This does not only work for democracy, but for any style of government in fact, the people are an extremely important, if not the most important, factor in any existing society. And in order for systems of government such as democracy to work, the people have to be supportive of their government, and the presence of potential to rebel/go against the rulers has to be eliminated, if not kept minimum.

In democracy we see a system that empowers the people with rights to vote for their government, to voice out their opinions, and that basic choice every human ought to have. We have been going on and on in the past few comments looking at instances in which Democracy has failed but we have not looked at examples of successful democracy. For example,
The United States of America, who have the highest GDP in the world and rank highly on all human devlopment indexes. Its government is acknowledged to be one of the most democratically able and competent. The US has also done well in other facets, such as its militrary development and its economy, both of which are still hugely relavant in this day and age. And the people of USA have definitely had a part to play in this. They have stood supportive of their government, keeping faith in them, and with the country's competent democratic process, there has not been any large scaled reason for rebel or riot in recent history.

And so in this instance, democracy can be deemed the best existing system of governance, due to its active citizen participation. When the people are equipped with the right to vote, it allows them to choose their leaders for themselves, and despite there always being a presence of a minority party whose preferred political parties do not get chosen, it is the one system that guarantees the most amount of support and satisfaction in the people.