In "Constitutie Politeia", Plato explains -through Socrates- how a state should take form, by the respect of every citizen's rights and duties. Thrasymachus on his side declares that the best is to take power, fill ones' own pockets and that of the leading class, and keep the people dumb and submitted.
What to do if your country's banks and media are taken over by wicked looters, who infiltrated by putting each-other on the best jobs, and collaborate with a foreign power to drain the country cyclically?