It’s our current system.
Yes, the one you just learned happily funds genocide - just like it has for more than a hundred years now.
What is a stronger and more viable path forward in your opinion?
You mean... apart from something that can be called democratic with a straight face?
Did you happen to notice what Palestinians had to recently go through just to make people in the US's blinkers fall off?
There are no magic wands that will make this happen without things getting much, much worse. Of course, that doesn't mean things won't get much, much worse anyway.