Great leaders bring peace and prosperity. Peace and prosperity leads to spoiled, self-centered children, and teachers who have their heads up their a@#es and believe in idiocy, but said idiocy strikes a responsive chord with the spoiled children. In their time, they bring bad leaders to power, which usher in a time of war and poverty, which leads to children who must grow up fast and think realistically, which eventually brings a great leader to power, and the cycle continues.
True.
I sometimes think that is why Israel is such a hard climate.
The Land requires one to depend on G-d and your fellow Jews.