[alphapapa]

Yes, and thanks for your comment. It is indeed a very complex problem without any simple solutions.

Education seems like a good start, but of course it raises the questions of who will teach and what they will teach. As history shows, teaching the wrong things can have very bad results. If the people making the decisions and doing the teaching are good, maybe it will turn out well. But if those people are not good, the end result could be tragic on a colossal scale.

> If people are empowered to challenge the govt. when it fails its job, then I think new good members will be born.

This is very important and insightful. I think it's also important that government be close to the people, i.e. power being distributed among many smaller bodies.