Exactly!

While we were not in the back rooms in the past four years, it's not hard to imagine the groupthink mentality that the current public figure would run forever, given the right kind of batteries. So no grooming was necessary.

Anyways the "debate" inspired me to write about "Limitation #8: Political parties cannot plan well for the future." Not finding a successor is a great example.

BTW, there are 12 limitations of western democracy. These are the reasons we need to move beyond western democracy, especially the American version.