If you're a futurist of any kind, you probably don't believe in democracy. When you're a libertarian, you don't try to push people but rather align incentives so that they kind of end up doing the right thing. Democracy doesn't work when it devolves to a contest of raiding the treasury, as has been seen many times worldwide. So I understand looking at what's going on democratically and being like this could never work to secure us a bright future.

You can't throw in a bunch of different people and expect them to get along democratically. For controlling those disparate masses, you need some other kind of government.