This isn't complicated.
Many people in positions of power maintained by the threat of violence have a personality which enjoys dominating others.
This is why I support peaceful anarchy. Anarchy means "no rulers." It has a starting point of the non-aggression principle where no human being can rule over another human being and there is no justified reason to initiate force against another peaceful individual. Those who enjoy dominating you want you to believe the world would go down in flames without the dear leaders to protect you.
In reality, those leaders light the flames for their own benefit.
Anarchists are not surprised when another politician shows their true nature. The next "scandal" is just a matter of more people waking up to the reality this system of government creates.
Thanks to blockchain technology, for the first time in human history, networks can be more effective than hierarchies for achieving consensus. Non-natural monopolies on force and currency creation backed by theft and threats of violence are no longer needed to achieve our goals as a species, assuming we continue moving up Maslow's Hierarchy of needs as we have been for the past 100+ years. Our circle of empathy is growing, and eventually it will not allow rulers to dominate others.
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