Does Democracy Have a Comeback Chance?

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I have replied to these comments as follows:

cheepchepcopy, 

Thanks for your comment, I agree with your proposition that "powers around the world are moving towards managed democracies. It would be nice if everywhere was democratic ..."

I also agree with Nick, who writes in 

https://peofdev.wordpress.com/2018/11/29/exorbitant-privilege-trump-the-dollar-and-global-prosperity/

"I am uncomfortable with economic policy made undemocratically by technocrats divorced from politics, which is likely to lead to a potentially dangerous disaffection with the system once things go wrong.”

Nick's misgivings are justified, but I can also see the positive: Nick is not alone in his desire for more meaningful democracy. 

I think the abuse of democracy can have the effect of strengthening forces stressing the foundational character of genuine political competition in our civilisation. 

In the era of political correctness, political activists are trying to push through "self-evident" political desiderata and behave - if not even argue - as if pluralism and political competition (notably democracy) were annoying obstacles in the way of absolutely required TINA-goals that leave no place for dissent and alternatives - like the catastrophic anthropogenic global warming (CAGW-) hysteria, which is the ultimate trick by which activists try to circumvent democratic control. As anti-democratic projects like CAGW or the EU increasingly fail, genuine democrats are likely to gain in standing.