The point of power isn't conquering or controlling people. It's a system of Mutualism between the leader and his people. People elect someone the task of leadership so that person can help them and, in turn, they'll help him. Leaders lead, followers follow; ideally, this could work out if both parties contribute their fair share of effort.

But this isn't an ideal world. A lot could go wrong in this sort of system, especially because it's been going on for centuries, even millenia. Ineptitude's one fault on their side, as is corruption and greed, and rebellion's one on ours. But that's because people live with the thought of "leaders are scary and we should obey them" ingrained into their heads rather than "they're here to help us", so when we open our eyes to this shocking revelation, we feel the need to rebel because it's so new to us. It's kind of like how most rebellions occur during a person's teenage years.

Reassigning power isn't a difficult thing, yes, but what's the point of ruining something that isn't broken? If the way things are have been running smoothly for years, then why change it?

[ooc: oh god what was that even. did anything i type make sense.]