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I dont disagree with the notion that a "changing of the guard" won't fix everything. It just means there's different people that risk being corrupted, assuming they weren't already. Like how after the French Revolution it just meant there different rich people in control.
But to say something we shouldn't even try because a certain percentage of the population is greedy, or psychopathic, or whatever other trait you want, isn't that great of an argument. You could say capitalism will never work because people are too dishonest and will lie to fool investors. Which is something that actually happens right now. Enron. FTX. Theranos.
This is THE issue imo. How do we deal with these people? I dont think ANY political philosophy can address that effectively. The original idea of splitting power into three houses wasn't bad, but these past two years have shown it wasn't enough.