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I don't think a Democracy is meant to foster merit at all. It's meant to foster the people. It serves the cutthroats because, in America, the majority of people are either a) cutthroat politicians or b) people willing to vote cutthroat politicians into ridiculous positions of power, positions of power which they have given themselves into through the social contract. That's why America is, very accurately, a Democracy.
However, obviously it should not be that way. I'm all for Democracy, and think that it's an ideal system. But not when people are stupid about it. It's bound to fail, like the majority of political systems. I think, though, that for now it seems to be a comparitively stable one. It is mediocre in potential and mediocre in stability, as opposed to the stable and destructive Monarchy, or the impossible but potentially rewarding Communism.
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