Read the following passage and answer the question given below selecting the most appropriate option : Democracy is indeed frustrating. 'It' allies itself with change, as the writer Lewis H. Lapham writes in 'Age of Folly', which engenders movement, which induces friction, which implies unhappiness, which assumes conflict not only as the normal but also as the necessary condition of its existence' yet, it creates a more just society than any other arrangement. As Lapham writes, if democracy means anything at all, "it means the freedom of thought and the perpetual expansion of the discovery that the world is not oneself." We are all minorities here. If not by religion, than by where we live, our levels of education, occupation, sexuality, eating habits, the clothes we wear, our hairdo, by whichever markers that set us apart. It is this democratic project, imperfectly realized as it, we are now in the danger of losing. We know how we got here. It first misfired in the states and attempts to make corrective action fell short slowly, the people of the country began doubting, "the benefits which the freedoms on offer are likely to bring them." To reclaim our institutions and insist on scrupulous adherence to the practice of democracy we need greater vigilance and solidarity. In some ways, the battle for India was lost when we stopped caring about rural schooling. 'Misfired' in the passage means :