It can only end with the rise of the Sausage-Seller, who will be elected on an accelerationist platform but will ultimately prove good, leading to the rejuvenation of The People and the expulsion of the demagogues.
Ruling is hard. This was maybe my answer to Pratchett, whom, as much as I admire him, I do quibble with. Discworld had a very medieval philosophy: that if the Patrician was a good man, the city of Ankh-Morpork would prosper. We look at real history and it’s not that simple. ... But Pratchett doesn’t ask the question: What was Cut-Me-Own-Throat Dibbler's tax policy?
It can only end with the rise of the Sausage-Seller, who will be elected on an accelerationist platform but will ultimately prove good, leading to the rejuvenation of The People and the expulsion of the demagogues.