Ah Amos, I'm sorry to say, your eyewear may be a tad on the rosy side. There hasn't been a "popular vote" since 2000, whether one takes the term to mean "all people vote" or "most votes win".

As to "representative system", I don't feel represented -- do you?

Autocracy is kicking ass on representation in the USA. There may be more democracies on the globe now than there were 85 years ago, but there's one less on this continent. And the key? Media (and thereby mind) control.

Ridiculously, we still hear claims of "liberal media". That's ludicrous; all the major media outlets are owned by the five major US corporations. Expect this trend to take hold in the rest of the world.

It's called "creeping fascism". It works by working slowly, and using great P.R. Be very afraid.

Cheers,
Michael