It’s still the best way even if it’s bad. Ranked choice voting would make it better.

As Churchill once famously said, democracy is the worst form of government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.

I guess one of the nicest things about democracy is that it has a built-in mechanism for removing a government. It may not be reliable at getting good leaders in place, but at least when there's a bad one it has a way of getting them back out again without having to go in shooting.