Nope, Ake, that's bit too strong. The main problem with politics is the same problem as with the world at large: short-termism. Nobody tries to encourage electorates into thinking long-term, and no politician can hope to meet any electorate's aspirations in the short term. Euqally no politician gives a damn about the long term, because he/she is not going to be around for that.

It's the same with the sotck exchanges and most things capitalist, and to a large extent it's the same with command economies and totalitarian regimes.

One world statesman who hung in for the lang haul was Castro, and maybe it's no coincidence that his prioritising led to some of the best education and health services in the world, in the face of punitive sanctions by the US, specifically intended to reduce Cuba's economy to ruins.