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The system of elective politics tends to weed out people who don't have power-lust, and select for people who do. This is always the case, unless you start drafting leaders from the general population.

The only way to deal with this is to create a governmental system with inherent restrictions on the power of the state itself. Our founders tried to do that, but over the years since, it's pretty much gone by the wayside, and like most other nations, we now have a government for which no aspect of your life or work is beyond some level of control.

If you had told Jefferson that someday the government would be telling us which fats to eat, whether or not to smoke, how much your toilet could flush, what wages could be paid, what trees you could cut on your own property, and tens of thousands of other interventionary laws all the way down to what the legal size for the holes in Swiss Cheese were, he probably would have hung himself.

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