YFNAYes the U.S. has a terrible president but the very role of president guarantees eventual terribleness. When you create a powerful position, it's just a matter of time before the worst kind of person attains it, and by then all your precious checks and balances have eroded as well
Mïkê 💚 👑🐉🗡️🏳️⚧️@AnarchoNeighbor That never happened to the Haudenosaunee chiefs. Elder women, who appointed and impeached chiefs, would raise all the village's boys together, so they'd always be able to see who would be best for the job. Then they'd just appoint the best ones. People would leave and start another village when they noticed the population getting too big for this.
That said, chiefs were never as powerful as American presidents. They had symbolic authority, which made people take them extremely seriously in meetings, but they never had the power to make anyone do anything against their will. The Haudenosaunee see that as illegitimate. That probably had something to do with it too.