"Good governance is not aggressive, bumbling experimentation. (Notably, of those experiments the bad ones are generally not killed off.) Instead, good governance is a sober evaluation of costs-and-benefits. It is realist and cautious. It aims to minimize damages (and feels a moral duty to do so). It keeps a close eye on outcomes and prioritizes the effects of things over the intentions of things."

So well said! But can western democracy really deliver kind of governance?