I don't secretly, or overtly, want favouritism, because it is immoral and destructive. A simple example of how I think democracy could be fixed, would be if your tax payments weighted your power. This would reverse the situation we have now, where the very poor (and susceptible to media manipulation) and the very rich have undue effect on the outcome of elections, meanwhile, those with the highest percentage of tax bill, the middle class, with their small businesses and higher incomes, and falling into the highest tax bracket, without enough money to pay for the machinations of tax avoidance accounting systems that abuse corporate tax laws... this would rebalance democracy and in fact turn it into a meritocracy, because the greatest influence would go to those with the biggest stake in the economy.

It is natural to want advantage, but when the advantage costs you, you don't want it so much. The ability to gain advantage at a low cost is why we have such a corrupt system now.