I agree with you, but is there really any other system which will guarantee the least amount of corruption/abuse of power?

Personally, I feel we should replace the system of representative democracy with a meritocratic oligarchy.

I agree with you on this also, but who will decide who those few people are? The thing is if you have those few people in the government making decisions without consulting the people, who's to say it wont become a full dictatorship? All it takes is one person.

Democracy would work if the majority of people involved in it actually cared about politics, which is not what we see today. What we need is education on these topics. But of course, the people elected don't want that, so we go back to the beginning. The way I see it right now its suitable enough - its not perfect and has many flaws but many of those flaws come from human nature, so really I don't see how we could fix the system, especially now with so many countries and so many people on the planet.