Recently news and debate in the Anglo-Saxon world have been dominated by fallout from Trump's reverses in the US mid-term elections, the Russell Brand and Williams cases in British media, and ongoing argument about social media effects on young people (notably boys under 16), location of data centres, and the perplexing potential of AI. These diverse topics can all be brought in under one general head: making power accountable and we can do (and fail to do) that.
By now it is traditional to say that democracy is the best system yet invented for holding people with power (economic, social, or political) to account for how they use it. Yet we (defenders of so-called 'Western civilisation') have to accept that democracy struggles with actually doing that. The current arguments all indicate fresh efforts to make democracies more effective, even when they have to keep a squint eye on dictators and terrorists who don't care to be held to account at all. But, as always, the task has to include making it easier for those who do wish to use their power wisely and in the public interest to be able to do so without others edging them out by gaming the system so as to get away with (say) sexual abuse, lining their pockets, or megalomaniac aggrandisement (sometimes all three). Various approaches from ancient religious and philosophical systems to democracy have been tried for doing this. Probably democracy still holds the relatively best record, but the road ahead is dangerous.
Postscript: The Armistice Day performance of Benjamin Britten's War Requiem concluded with the words of Wilfred Owen: 'I am the enemy you killed, my friend. Let us sleep now'.