The reason it is not working is because it is no longer democracy due to outside forces and that we aren't willing to give

new democracies enough time to really grow as a democracy before we begin tearing them down again. If each country were able to rebuild in a political vacuum, maybe it could work, but we have thousands of people with economic and political interest in any num ber of nations who have revolutions. I really don't put it past any number of governments or businesses to push their own agendas in these situations. Governments and business have more capital and thus more influence than the popu lar uprising. The popular uprising is compromised of many different people with different ideas. Part of creating a democracy is recognizing that and working wi th it. People must forget how long it actually took for America to have a constitution written and to become a democracy. They tried and failed many times before they finished a finalized constitution. Even after they did, it was a long time before America truly came into its own p rosperity. Becoming a democracy didn't have immediate benefits. It really didn't . People are expecting these popular revolutions to turn things around in six mont hs. It took America decades to really find a foothold, so why are we expecting s olutions overnight? It's pretty laughable to expect. It's not that democracy isn't working, but in our modern, fast-paced world, no o ne is willing to discuss politics with someone they disagree with for long enoug h to come to real compromises. They also aren't willing to wait for "the economy " to kick back in. They want solutions and they want them NOW. Which is complete ly unreasonable. So, I think that it isn't necessarily that democracy isn't working, but rather w e have some power players who are more than happy to influence these nations as they try to regrow and regroup and on top of that we all seem to have this expec tation for it to flourish immediately and solve problems quickly. Also, democracy in first world countries isn't working anymore because they aren 't really democracies anymore. (America was always a republic, a representative democracy, but even that is a sham at this point.) EDIT: In case anyone was wondering, Albert Camus wrote an entire book on this su bject, The Rebel. He delved into the histories of multiple revolutions and discu ssed how, over a matter of a few generations, government had simply returned to being as bad as it was before. Post-revolution, things don't turn around right a way, and people begin to forget what was fought for to begin with. From Wikipedia (as it provides a better summary than I): Another prominent theme in The Rebel, which is tied to the notion of incipient r ebellion, is the inevitable failure of attempts at human perfection. Through an examination of various titular revolutions, and in particular the French Revolut ion, Camus argues that most revolution has involved a fundamental denial of both history and transcendental values. Such revolutionaries aimed to kill God. In t he French Revolution, for instance, this was achieved through the execution of L ouis XVI and subsequent eradication of the divine right of kings. The subsequent rise of utopian and materialist idealism sought "the end of history." Because t his end is unattainable, according to Camus, terror ensued as the revolutionarie s attempted to coerce results. This culminated in the "temporary" enslaving of p eople in the name of their future liberation. Notably, Camus' reliance on non-se cular sentiment does not involve a defense of religion; indeed, the replacement of divinely-justified morality with pragmatism simply represents Camus' apotheos is of transcendental, moral values.