Comment by mrguyorama

Democracy is not "Whoever gets half + 1 vote is king"

Winning representatives are still supposed to represent the people who didn't vote for them in fact.

Democracy isn't about picking the "best" leader because that's not necessary. "The best" is almost never necessary, and you are much better off building a system that handles regularly not getting the best, because no system reliably picks the best, especially since "The best" is a criteria that cannot be rigorously defined.