"...there have always been about 5% who are different, who think independently and are connected to reality outside the herd."

"...people who are drawn to positions of power tend to skew towards having psychopathic tendencies, making them ideal candidates to execute inhumane actions against their fellow people."

This is almost funny... I can see the bell curve meme with 95% in the middle as mindless sheep, and 2.5% on each end representing good and evil.

There are a small contingent who see through the error.  What they decide to do with that knowledge is their path.  These are targeted and enticed with desire and even those with the best intentions see corruption.  

"But he who peers into the perfect law that belongs to freedom and who persists in it, this man, because he has become, not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, will be happy in his doing it."  James 1:25