what is the deal with democracy?

With the general elections coming, it seems to many that the elections is just a farce acted out to give a semblance of democracy and its most critical element; that of representation by elections. Cool young arm chair wannabe dissidents like myself start heated debates about how the PAP is just trying to drown out opposition voice, redrawing electoral boundaries to their advantage blah blah...cool young arm chair wannabes who talk this over a cup of $6.50 Starbucks frappe in the coolest part of town after work/school and the next day go back into the very same comfortable material life that have been created by the very governments that they criticise because due to them, we do not have freedom of press while maybe free speech really does a lot of good when u have nothing to eat.

So why bother with elections at all? Because the whole says that "democracy is good". The world? Perhaps our worldview is a little too narrow, the world does consist much more that just the Europeans and the Americans way of life. Things, mentality of other non western worlds that we have no clue about. Democracy, it becomes a word we repeat with no clue of whether it is right or wrong or good or bad. Iran is bad...why? Because they are not democratic, Singapore government is bad. Why? Because it does not have serious democratic elections. American, well that is a real example of good democracy...really? I do not know, I have not lived there. This is really not a post to deride democracy but guess it is a manifest of frustration of the senseless usage of democracy as a facade to hide real intentions or to manipulate poor idealists. Not only that but there are many fundamentals in ways of life, cultures, society where these fundamentals exist and I will term them as social "truths", u never question them or risk not fitting in. That’s the way of humans. I rest my case.