So stop plotting!
Our forefathers were tested with sheep-herding and found worthy. Rabbi Bar Chaim explains that semicha will return to “natural elites” in a bottom-up process.
Kingship is originally granted to a person who demonstrates positive character (no bribes, peace, judgement). Today, on the other hand, political office is attained by a perverse “race to the bottom”; one who manages to deceive the largest number of voting blocs that he will fulfil their mutually-conflicting dreams (Arabs\Jews, Feminists\non-feminists, the envied\the envious, etc.) wins.