I believe the state does a much better job at attracting megalomaniacs and sociopaths into positions to cause maximum societal harm than it is at attracting experts to solve society's ills. I don't disagree that human beings can be easily manipulated. I disagree that states offer a solution to the fallibility of human beings. Your argument doesn't seem to be serving your point of view very well, actually, as the political system exhibits and often magnifies all of the human flaws you're talking about. At least the free market attempts to serve consequences to people for their successes and failures. Maybe a positive incentive structure would foster more enlightened human beings than a perverted incentive structure does.