Leading questions:
Representative vs Direct Democracy?
Unitary or Federal?
Presidential or Parliamentary?
How much separations of powers should there be? In presidential systems, such as the United States of America, there is often deadlock between the executive and legislature. In parliamentary systems, the head of government is elected by legislature, therefore, there is practically no deadlock as long as theres is majority support of the executive in the legislature (although, there can still be courts to determine constitutionality of policiss). Would you prefer more checks and balances, but can also result in more deadlock, or a government more easily able to enact policies, for better or for worse?
Electoral method? FPTP? Two-Round? Ranked-Choice/Single-Transferable Vote? What about legislature? Should there be local districts? Single or Multi member districts? Proportional-representation based on votes for a party? If so, how should the party-lists be determined?
Should anti-democratic parties be banned? Or should all parties be allowed to compete in elections, regardless of ideology? In Germany, they practice what’s called “Defensive Democracy” which bans any political parties (and their successors) that are anti-democratic. Some of banned political parties include the nazi party.
How easy or difficult should the constitution br allowed to be changed? Majority support or some type of supermajority support?
Should we really elect officials, or randomly select them via sortition?
These are just some topics to think about, you don’t have to answer all of them.
Edit: Clarified some things
Honestly…it isn’t. Democracy is just tyranny minus time. For an example of this in America, it gave us Jim Crow.
Thanks to the elections of 2020 and 2022, I have legitimately become a monarchist. As long as there’s some way to receive redress when it is needed and something like the Bill of Rights, give me a king or some sort of witan-like council.
I suffer from many and profound mental illnesses and maladies of mental health. My judgment is compromised (I was in a cult for a few years). People like me can vote. That’s a problem.
The sustainability of a monarchy is the problem. Even if you have a great king, they’re smart, they’re competent, they care about the good of the people, what about their successor? And what’s more, every person is fallible, susceptible to blind spots or maladjusted thinking. With a monarch there’s not a true means to address that sort of problem. Democracy has all sorts of problems, it’s true. But as the quote goes, it’s the worst form of government after all other forms of government.