CDZ How do we prevent sociopaths from gaining power?

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When you have a superficial society that idolizes popularity over merit, you get sociopaths.

When you have a society that is spoonfed their daily political talking points, gathering information via social media, and generally opposed to research/reading, you get sociopaths.

Where hierarchies exist, certain personality types gravitate to positions of control over others. When the specific case involves a position of supreme power in a nation, a sociopath will find his way there if not prevented.