I hope our era will be remembered for something other than the abject failure of liberal democracy. The US and Europe are struggling/sabotaging themselves, while Russia and China just consolidate their power. Africa keeps burning. India will take the Sino-Russian path no doubt.
Unfortunately our (speaking as a Canadian) system doesn't seem to be truly liberal or democratic. Every five years or so, we elect a parliamentary elite selected for us by the Toronto business community. The the parliament does its best to distract the public from the true policy objectives of the government (i.e. growing the fortunes of their moneyed masters by all means necessary). this system only barely meets the loosest definition of democracy and is closer in spirit to a republic or an oligarchy. It seems that whatever liberal tendencies our government has is a holdover from last century and losing ground to American-style neoliberalism.
What worries me is not that this system might fail, but that it be replaced by a state-of-the art dictatorship that treats the population as slaves.
