A flaw of democracy

nowadays democracy is indirect, we elected someone to represent us in the council. even in general election, every people vote for themselves, we transfer some power to the representative, say, president.

during the election, candidates can imagine many things, can give a vision, an imagination to people, to "sell" themselves, to image themselves as the most suitable person.

however, there is no guarantee thy what they said will come true. this is the flaw of democracy, or more precise, the flaw of right transfer, the flaw of election.

in hk, there are many politic party, before the election, they publish their attitude on certain issues. Say, they support general election, extend the transparency of the government, etc. however, after they were elected, sit in the council tight, they take action totally opposite by objecting related bills, acts, etc..

not just in hk, I can see in Taiwan, every in US, candidates will say something they cannot do. Although in catholic country, there moral standard is higher then Chinese, they are more careful when talking about sensitive issue. however, the democracy is mean to wipe out the fluctuation on human moral standard. the best is minimum the effect on moral. of course, that does not mean we don't need a good moral of leaders.

so, may be, we require all elected candidates are required to their wealth to the failed candidates, or opposite party. When ever they do something violated what they said during election, their money will be donated to charity by the opposite party.

however, as the councillors are not sitting there forever, they have to face another election after the council was over. people will "remember" why they did and not voting those cheaters again. that seem to be a good counter action to regulate councillors. and who regulate the opposite party for donating the money??

but that may be not enough. What if someone, mean to do bad things and just want to be a councilor once?? he don't mean to be re-elected, but just want to do selfish thing?? moreover, people have to be a good memories to remember what they did in last few years. to be honest, it is hard to do!

I know this is not the best answer. the idea is that, they are immediate facing a drawback on violate promise. and they are always be watched by the opposite party, or even the media.

media can only make their image bad, but for those real evil, they don't care. there must be some way to regulate those are not honest. and make every candidates to say something real practical and realistic.