What if that was very much part of the problem that got us to this mess?
To start with, nothing very "demos" about it. Mob-rule or Majority-rule, if you prefer, is how it really operates. Effectively cancelling all minority opinions. But wat if these silenced voices held the truth?
In short, we are running on a dumb, very outdated operating system.
My bet for effective future community governance would be to use the far smarter Systemic Consensus*. Watch Christian Felber use it at 12:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsO-b0_r-5Y