[smitty1e]

> Result: we are ruled by the Unstained Incompetent. The system selects for people whose primary skill is avoiding decisions. These are not the people who will reform the system. They are the people the system was designed to produce.

I'm choosing to translate "the system" here as the entrenched bureaucracy that has grown up in the Western world in the last century.

More patriotic leaders have emerged where elections remain meaningful, and those leaders are ruthlessly attacked by "the system".

Which is an ironically non-passive behavior mode.