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That's not a joke by the way.
That's an inherent trait of "liberal democracies" such as most (EDIT: democracies) in the world.
When they were forming, each had something else to compensate for this, be it a constitutional right of the military to change governments and ban parties, or quotas for party representation, or a monarch with some overruling powers, or a good tradition of countrywide protests with molotov cocktails over any grievance, one can go on.
Now they all converged to something averaging the working mechanisms of the 80s and 90s, and that doesn't work. Well, if you take two kinda similar mechanisms and make something from a common subset of their parts, it won't work if they are not redundant.