Right you are anon. The extremely low, irrational mental level of people makes any democracy into a dumbocracy. A republic is also very hard to keep, again due to the debased level of the population.
The same mindless thugs that rape, pillage and murder in order to satisfy their base, egotistical and irrational desires are the ones we have running our government and most governments world wide.
The problem is that there are too many of them in all levels of society and unless something drastic is done and rational individuals take control aiming at changing at least a generation, this vicious cycle will just keep repeating ad infinitum.