Is Democracy Good?

20260619: it is clear that the vast, vast majority of the world's nations claim to be democracies. those that don't strive to be democratic almost always have a word like "democratic" or "republic" in their respective formal names, or have phony elections, and this would seem to imply that democracy is almost universally seen as a good thing.
now, as a disclaimer, i know next to nothing about the global field of thought, and i am just thinking in my head and writing my thoughts down, so i don't actually know if most ppl in the world think democracy to be good, or if not, why not.
it seems to me that many ppl don't have faith in democracy, be it explicitely, because they personally do not benefit from it, or be it because they do not have faith in the crowd to know what's "good", and because of these observations, i want to examine whether or not i have faith in democracy