Your preferences don't matter. My preferences don't matter. What matters is what works. If democracy yields government paralysis, then democracy will die. Let me use an example. Several Chinese governments tried (and failed) to eliminate the scourge of Opium. They failed. The communists used firing squads. They succeeded.

Singapore has a democratically elected government. Singapore is frequently described an an 'authoritarian democracy'. Singapore uses hanging. The bottom line is simple. Liberal governments don't survive, even if we want them to.