As revolutions are cyclical and apparently inevitable, modern republics found a way to maintain themselves and fix this problem by internally rotating small dictatorships, called governments, this way the people can use their votes to make small revolutions every four years or so and are kept quiet and happy knowing they made the revolution, like when you give kids candy.
Therefore we need not elections or revolutions we need a social revolution or even better, A clean reboot.
Homework: Read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_dictator, dictators were members of republics probably the first ones.