The act of electing officials by popular vote is ridiculous. This method is nothing more than what a majority of people happens to think, and so an absurdity could be elected.

Righteous leaders can only be guaranteed if the people themselves are enlightened with the understanding of what is right. Such an election would be unnecessary, then, because everyone would be in agreement and not in a state of confusion of where to be led.

Each person would be a leader, responsibly ordering his own affairs and family and helping others and would not need a bureaucrat to tell him not to throw his Burger King bag out the car window or to not climb in his neighbor's window and rape a sleeping child. But such readily apparent mores, especially the former, seem to escape the general population and so we have a system of penalties, or laws, to keep us on our toes.

Yet the search for truth is lost in the dark systems of the judiciary, as the defense merely wants to show they didn't do it and the prosecutor that they did. The poor defendant, no longer cast in a healing light, plays along with the excitement of being found innocent when he knows he's guilty. Or the prosecutor delights in a judgment of guilty on an innocent person.

The wheels of justice really begin grinding up their victims once they are given over to the jailer. All the failures of the human condition are amplified in this next arena, only slightly tempered by incapable guards and officials. This lack in the proper officiating of the prison leaves a void of command, and so the inmates take over with roaming gangs, acts of violence, cursing, intimidation, and plenty of bodybuilding to properly carry out the previous.

Could it be that when people assemble in a group, bickering, confusion, and failure ensues because the least capable member expresses themselves throughout the whole?

This may be likely and surely that only an individual is able to break free from group failure to realize for herself the proper way to go about things. For even if the group happened by chance to be doing the right movements their understanding and justification for these movements would be missing, and they would just as soon follow Gandhi's recommendations as Hitler's.

If I don't know myself the right way to do things, how can I trust the group to lead me in the right direction?  Therefore, it stands to reason that righteous leaders are appointed by their own right and not by a certain number of ticks on paper.