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"...There's always another power hungry megalomaniac ready to fill the void,..."

I think you should have said, "In the past, there has always been another power-hungry megalomaniac ready to fill the void..."
But that is because assassination, the likelihood of assassination, has always remained quite rare in many societies. When it does occur, it tends to not occur again. So, a politician likely feels that it is safe for him to fill the void made by the previous assassination.

If, instead, it becomes almost certain that the new, replacement politician will ALSO be killed, the line of volunteer politicians willing to sign up should be far shorter.

I am proposing a system which will make the second assassination just as likely as the first one, in fact virtually certain. This is DIFFERENT.