Besides, look at all the good we've done these drunks. True, founders and their friends are sometimes wiser and more humble than this. But more often at this stage they are not. Growing pains now beset the group. Lonely hearts pine.
Problems descend like an avalanche.
The founder and his friends are hurt and depressed. The group conscience is about to take over. Now comes the election. If, however, they have heavily resisted the rising tide of democracy, they may be summarily beached. In either case, the group now has a so-called rotating committee, very sharply limited in its authority.