Subject: Re: Question for Albaby
But we do seem to be on the road to a failed democracy.

Meritocracy in the civil service is being destroyed, to be replaced by incompetents with the one quality Trump values: loyalty to him.

Again, it's important to keep our terms clear.

Incompetence doesn't make for a failed democracy. Democracy doesn't guarantee a good or bad result - it simply guarantees a result that the electorate has chosen. If you elect a bad person to lead an office, and they fill it with incompetent staff, that's not democracy failing. They won the election, one of the powers of the office is choosing to hire and fire, so they have the ability to hire either competent or incompetent people.

In a democracy, the electorate is allowed to make a bad choice. It's allowed to elect leaders who make bad choices. It's allowed to elect leaders that prioritize loyalty over competence. If they do that, it's not a failed democracy - it's just a badly staffed government.