I absolutely agree with you, but this requires people to mostly think like that. And if people already mostly think like that, then it is actually almost completely irrelevant what political system we have. The question is how to establish such a mindset in most people.

So all I gotta do is be the person delegated to the vigilance task and I'm golden for a takeover

Democracy and the separation of power is such a structure that we already have. It works perfectly fine if "the group would team up" and vote people that try to assert dominance out.

We're just missing the "customs" that would make people do just that, and the question is how to establish this custom.

It was already clear that we need customs that make people not give other people power, the question that I posed was how to start those customs you talk about.

So how exactly do you think this all started in the first place? We didn't start out with people in power...

Social status seeking is a behaviour we share with chimps, so it probably dates back to at least our last shared ancestor, ~6-7 Mya. It's observed in most social mammals, so maybe as far back as the rise of mammals like 66 Mya.

How do you know your first sentence is true?

You can't abolish thoughts. That's why the "war on terror" will never be won.

You also can't abolish things without a power structure to enforce it.