"So we all fall to our societal doom because we get the wrong person to the seat of power or someone who shouldn't takes over it by force and ruins everything?"

...that's...very plausible. A little too plausible for comfort. Shelley shakes her head, trying not to think too hard about it.

"Maybe not knowing it could be a cycle would give more hope. You may not want to tell other people about that"

Oh well. She'll get over it after some thinking, but right now the thought human society may disappear as she knows it someday is kind of gloomy, goodness.