Is it normal to think people are too stupid for democracy to work?

Aristocratic monarchies do not work better, but that's beside the point.

Even with an 'educated public' (whatever that means) you're going to get bad policy occasionally because people can be selfish pricks, and much of the time, they're going to use motivated reasoning to defend whatever batshit policy they hope is going to benefit them in the moment, even if it harms everyone else. People who are educated are sometimes even worse than people who are not because people with higher intelligence can bullshit themselves into believing in nonsense much more capably than someone of middling intelligence.

The other issue is just that there's really no incentive to gain the kind of expert knowledge that some aspects of politics requires. The more people voting, the less each individual vote counts. The less each vote counts, the less rational it is to spend countless years studying the fields necessary to make an informed decision (one can devote years to studying only one aspect of the economy, and still have major disagreements with other experts in the field, for example). So people instead rely on in-group/out-group cues and social-posturing instead, while politicians rely on emotional appeals. Giving each individual more control over their lives may be a smart move, simply because if people feel like they've got control over something, they're more likely to spend time researching their best options.

"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."

-John Adams

The majority will always choose the evil option. It was the case in the past, and it is even more the case now.

You had me, then you lost me.

That is the reason that the USA is a "Democratic Republic", and not just a democratic nation where the majority always rules.

People have rights regardless of what the majority things; which would not happen in a pure democracy where the majority whim of the moment could become law and completely overturn what came before.

It's also inherently hard to change - where as in a democracy the majority vote can change the form of the goverment at will - and for any reason.

I agree. Democracy is a terrible system.

This is why I will never support the abolition of the Electoral College. People are morons, and oftentimes democracy is almost mob rule, at least in some parts of the world.

Exactly. One of the benefits to living ten thousand years ago was that you could spend your life somewhere somewhat isolated and build your own castle or garden of eden and only have to worry about defending your livelihood.

I do not think it a coincidence that ideas of an economy or capitalism exist since all those little bells and whistles of society keep us distracted from greater truths.