Machiavelli woule surely agree with the structure of the class monitor elections. Destroy your opponents while ensuring your rise to the top. Personally, I thought that these elections showed how non-democratic societies often replicate the corrupt. broken democracies countries like America has, thinking that’s the best version of democracy there can be. If kids being taught the basics of democracy are told to tear down the other people running for office, to run for your own selfish desires, and to treat your constituents like pawns to be cajoled into voting for you, rather than people who should be listened to and treated with respect, I wouldn’t be surprised if a future Chinese democracy became as much a corporate sewer pit as American democracy has become. One could make the argument that these dirtier aspects of politics are inevitable. But if we are teaching children from the start to expect and reward these tactics, aren’t we simply creating a self fulfilling prophecy? It’s scenarios like this that make the “second best” option we have seem like the seediest.