>most people are manipulated brainlets. 50% of your country is retarded. How do you expect democracy to work?
If 25 % of the retards are retarded one way and 25 % the other way, the retardation cancels out when counting the votes. This does actually work, if everyone in your country belongs to basically the same group. Of course, there are always going to be different groups, so you must maximize the similarity as much as possible.

In short, democracy can work okay, if your country is made up of white Christians of a single ethnicity and a single language.