Too much politics corrupts democracy, and too much democracy gets in the way of policy. Politics is about positions, policy about decisions, democracies produce compromises, technocracies produce solutions, democracy suffices, technocracy optimizes.
But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us. 2 Corinthians 4:7 KJV “True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less.” – C.S. Lewis