I'm sure that Cayde would claim that dumb luck is just one of the many skills he brings to the Vanguard. You do bring up a number of valid concerns. All humans are flawed and fallible. The main difference between the NM's end goal and our current status quo is that instead of just one flawed person in charge we have a handful of flawed people in charge. We are still tempting fascism, but with an oligarchy instead of a dictator. It will just take them a bit longer make up their minds. Yes, things are slowly getting better. The key word is slowly. When an emergency happens, we need quick decisive action, and that's the one thing that committees, parliaments, and senates do poorly. If we were in a different type of situation, the Consensus might be the best choice, but we are in a post apocalyptic mankind on the brink of extinction situation. A couple of hundred years of the Consensus has only gotten us survival. Most of the better has happened in the last couple of years. Reestablishing contact with the reef, putting some sort of armed presence on the moon and other former colonies in the solar system, the humbling of a number of the Fallen houses, and the crushing of the leadership of the Hive? Just the last 3 years. The Consensus has kept us alive, but we need more that to just live. We need to grow. Ask the FWC, danger is on the way, and we are going to need a strong leader to guide us through it. Otherwise you better hope we have some more dumb luck saved up.