They sure do, but the distributed leadership means there's hopefully someone pushing against corruption, even if it's inconvenient for other goals of the government. Even if they don't succeed, at least they keep shining some light on it. (I'm looking at your Aussie government blocking the anti-corruption group)
> Democracies don’t become self-serving?
Same. There's always going to be some inefficiency, but the closer we are to actual democracy and the less biased it is, the better it seems at ejecting the self-serving members of the government.
You think that democracies are long-term efficient?
Democracies don’t have corruption?
Democracies don’t become self-serving?
I mean, I prefer to live in a democracy because of individual freedoms but it’s not terribly well-organized.