Backroom Errata

[Montmorency]

So you move power from one small group of people to another small group of people, effectively concentrating the power at the hands of a smaller number of people overall. Then what?

Aha, you made the wrong assumption. Eroding concentration of power is the broader principle here. A purely statist or managerial approach runs the risk you describe, but the trend today is to emphasize the transition to decentralized and communitarian organization of society. Without beginning to debate the timescale or balance of powers between local and megapolitan, the goal is exactly to diffuse practical power into more and more hands.

No one is unaccountable.

OK, but no one is truly powerful when set against the transcendent might of the Divine. Ask this guy -

They too can be held accountable, though the "actionable threshold" for an effort to 'bring them to justice' would be very high.

he knows his Jesus stuff.

[Seamus Fermanagh]

Oh, I don't think it necessarily has to await the next life (what e're that may be), though Putin and Kim et al will face that hurdle as we all must.

In this life, holding such a leader to account requires existential risk for you and those close to you. Pretty much an "our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor" level risk with a functionally greater likelihood that any but the last will be taken away from you. Not many are willing to play at those stakes.

[Seamus Fermanagh]

...he knows his Jesus stuff.

Kind of you to say, but any number of hard-shell Baptists would tell you that I, as a Catholic, simply do not.

I don't agree, but nor would I claim myself to be much of a theologian.