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Your one step away from reinventing communism and 2 from discovering decentralised anarchism as the real answer.
Controlling a nation is power. The people who control the nation have more power than other citizens, they form a political class.
Communism seeks to create a classless society but its main flaw (which is actually a reasonable perspective in historical context and the technology of then) is that it still held on to the idea of having a state, a centralised leadership.
But technology has evolved, anyone can interact with any group through digital means. Anyone can share knowledge or document and publish problematic events in their local area.
Building a network of decentralised neighbourhoods where all citizens are welcome to join the local political debates (and multi local joined sittings) is possible.
There is no need why a few chosen people have to have all the power.
A few people will always end up with all of the power, it's how its always been because that's how our species works. Having mechanisms for choosing these people peacefully is better than a free for all power grab.
Saying concentrated power is human nature is weird. Humans are creative and social enough to do better.
We only need to look at human history, and animals in general. The power of an individual is very limited, so those with shared interests group together for protection. The bigger and more powerful groups dominate the smaller and weaker ones and power naturally concentrates into the modern nation state, political party, corporation, etc. And whoever controls those groups holds the most power.
Your perspective requires that all humans be willing and able to come to mutually acceptable compromises for any disagreement. But that's obviously not possible, there are many disagreements where humans can't just split the difference or are simply unwilling to make any compromise for whatever reason. And so power becomes the deciding factor.