Slop.

Who writes and evaluates the tests? Whatever you claim the answer is, the ultimate answer is "bureaucrats," because a ruling minority who gets to decide the terms of qualifying for being in the ruling minority is a bureaucracy,

I want the system China has. No direct elections over party leadership, but many layers of party positions where the people can choose their local reps, and the reps have to PROVE they are competent leaders by doing good work, producing results, and studying advanced Marxism to move up the ranks. This is a Meritocracy seeded with people that the local voters want to represent them. I like this system.

The system we have now is a marketing farce where there is a multi-billion dollar industry dedicated to share vapid emotional appeals to elect the dumbest people to go to Congress, get Aipac money and piss and moan about Hasan Piker.