Maybe one day our elected leaders will actually do some leading, rather than pandering to people in their pockets (and I'm not talking about one or another political party, they're all shit). Whats the alternative at the moment? I don't know. Meritocracy has some useful features, but it's historic applications have not worked out so well long tern and sometimes devolves into socialism or is abused to create substantive inequality. History has alot of great examples of where different alternatives have not worked...