Democracy is the final outcome of individual shortcomings - dishonesty, injustice, corruption. Democracy is a blanket provided by the unjust, corrupt and materially strong individuals to cover their own faults along with the faults of their weaker cousins at the expense of the righteous individual.
If each man was righteous, had inner strength of beliefs to withstand the onslaught of evil, democracy is not needed, since such a society will always be ruled by a just ruler.