Unfortunately it is those most focused on the now that are most adept at climbing the greasy pole of politics.

What we need to do, is step back and understand the function of government in the first place. Modern economics and bacteria operate on the same premise of infinite growth. The problem is when the resources are tapped out, or the edge of the petri dish is reached.

The advantage of multicellular organisms is being able to sense and navigate their situation.

To the extent society functions as a larger organism, government, as executive and regulatory function, is the nervous system, while money and banking are an abstraction of blood and the circulation system. Ostensibly to allocate resources where they are most useful.

Yet as the cells in these organisms, people resent government trying to tell them what to do and idolize money as the source of their desires and needs.

Which has given the banks the upper hand. So the only real job the flunkies allowed in office have, is running up the public debt the banks need to grow metastatically. The secret sauce of capitalism is public debt backing private wealth.

The debt started to grow with the New Deal, so not only was Roosevelt putting unemployed labor back to work, but unemployed capital as well. Then WW2 came along, as the largest public works project in the country's history and the die was cast, with the military as the golden child.

As the only tool in the tool box, whenever the delinquent children in DC feel the need to act important, they go play cowboys and Indians on the other side of the planet. That turning brown people to pink mist is not an effective long term investment with this money would be thinking too far ahead.