Competent leadership can hold back the tide for a while, but eventually you get incompetent leadership and things go to hell. This is why good democracies only

Competent leadership can hold back the tide for a while, but eventually you get incompetent leadership and things go to hell. This is why good democracies only permit authoritarian/oligarchic dictatorships in corporate form, there's no decades of civil war when a bad CEO runs a company into the ground.