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@JimmyTruth @Humpleupagus @Diceynes @msbellows @JedDrudge @eriner @CoQ_10 it isn't just the (((influence))), though; honestly compels us to acknowledge the following facts:

• probably 90% of the population has no business whatsoever being involved in any political process at all;
• the only long-term-viable incentive structure is one that saddles political actors with responsibility commensurate with their station, and makes it absolutely impossible for them to shirk or offload those responsibilities;
• people will always attempt to move their heirs to the front of the line - this is biological reality - but many traits (including "intelligence" and "ability to lead") are in fact at least partially heritable
• the ideal system has some permeability: a leadership caste not so inbred as to be completely separate from the people (thereby making it prone to becoming a nest of mutant retards), and with the ability for people to both rise into it via extraordinary performance and fall out of it due to extraordinary incompetence

put all that together, the result looks suspiciously like the Middle Ages