The limitations of democracies are obvious to those of us who have lived in them for long enough. Whether it is campaign donations, political careerism, nepotism, factionalism, legislative gridlock or media biases, there is much to complain about. One obvious problem with democracy is that power ends up in the hands of people who desperately want it. They want political power more for their own interests and ideology than for the common good. Even worse, the only way to remove one ambitious or incompetent politician is to replace them with a potentially more ambitious and even more incompetent
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