They have elections there they just need to get used to real elections.

Look out the conspiracy theorists will be saying you stole my smarts.

I think humans may end in a few tens or hundred thousand years and something else will rise after the evolutionary period that will be required to be the next apex species to arrive. I have absolute faith that life cannot be extinguished on earth, there is just so much, an experiment once commenced that never ends. Barring a a major celestial intervention.