Whatever dogwhistling quoting the Protocols of Zion unattributed and replacing "GOYIM" with "CENSORED" is supposed to be, it's beyond the pale for HN. Such games are a bannable offense here, so please don't do it again.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: it looks like you've been using HN for ideological and national flamewar, e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16943121. We ban accounts that do that, so please don't.

The real question is how to make a system with better incentives.

The only thing I've been able to come up with would be to dilute the expected reward of the political game with stochastic power structures. Democratically maintain a pool of candidates and then use some a random process to select from them.

Nobody will ever ask me, of course, but it's fun to think about.

That suggestion reminds of the system in Arthur C. Clarke's Imperial Earth:

“For the last century, almost all the top political appointments on Terra had been made by random computer selection from the pool of individuals who had the necessary qualifications. It had taken the human race several thousand years to realize that there were some jobs that should never be given to people who volunteered for them, especially if they showed too much enthusiasm. As one shrewd political commentator had remarked: “We want a President who has to be carried screaming and kicking into the White House – but will then do the best job he possibly can, so that he’ll get time off for good behavior.”