A cult of personality is always flawed and, more often than not, the figurehead is packaged fiction.

Depending upon your level of self-assurance, the idea of a figurehead is either preposterous or comforting. I seriously believe the founding fathers understood there were lots of idiots our their and a democracy would eventually lead to tyranny. So instead they create a republic and create three branches to keep them all in check.

So a President was just another check. His real position is to thwart popular will, because popular will is often self-destructive, because of the high levels of idiocy found in the masses and mobs.

The four year term was brilliant, though. It keeps the figurehead changing. One look at Chavez and Venezuela or Castro and Cuba to see what happens when you let the cult of personality prevail. Or the history of the Soviet Union where dictators had life terms.

Those who espouse equality for all and pretend this is a good thing are your dictators and tyrants.

But you know this already. ;)