Of course, the eventual monarchy didn't solve Israel's problems either:
> When they said, “Give us a king to judge us,” Samuel considered their demand wrong, so he prayed to the Lord. But the Lord told him, “Listen to the people and everything they say to you. They have not rejected you; they have rejected me as their king....
> When that day comes, [the people asking for a king] will cry out because of the king you’ve chosen for yourselves...
> — 1 Samuel
No mere human is deserving of being "believed in," whether it's a king, politician, religious leader, or even one's own self. We're simply not good enough (or powerful enough, or...) to be able to truly fix the world's problems on our own.
We took a bunch of sociopaths from the monied parts of the US (mainly the east and west coasts) and told them that if something is good for them, it's good for society.
Is it bad that we're destroying a region's economy by shutting down its main employers? Of course not, because the right people are making money off the increase in shareholder value brought about by offshoring those employers to countries with totalitarian governments that keep the pay low and the unions busted.
> When they said, “Give us a king to judge us,” Samuel considered their demand wrong, so he prayed to the Lord. But the Lord told him, “Listen to the people and everything they say to you. They have not rejected you; they have rejected me as their king.... > When that day comes, [the people asking for a king] will cry out because of the king you’ve chosen for yourselves... > — 1 Samuel
No mere human is deserving of being "believed in," whether it's a king, politician, religious leader, or even one's own self. We're simply not good enough (or powerful enough, or...) to be able to truly fix the world's problems on our own.