I know it is fairly popular on HN to say that any party that is coded ring-wing is terrible. But, I genuinely think that there isn't a single person with enough nuanced knowledge of even 3 of those countries at the same time to make any kind of sweeping political statement about them.
What makes you think that countries or opposition parties with less spotlight have more competent leaders? Name a country of any decent size and I'm sure citizens of those nations will flock to the comments talking about how messed up their political system is. Politics is messy, by definition.
> dumbest end up in positions of power
The hubris of us highly-educated workers to think that degrees or 'elite coded appearance' are what define intelligence. The likes of Boris and Modi are political geniuses with carefully cultivated identities and a keen understanding of the landscape.
> randomly pick a citizen to be President or PM
I know you mean this in jest, but political power doesn't come merely from titles. They'd just end up manipulated by the same 'powerful politician' anyway. I picked on this strawman because it demonstrates that politics is not a vice that can be eliminated from positions of power, it is the very mechanism by which struggles for power function.