Could this be why our politics are so messed up? When you're only worried about being re-elected in 4 years, there's zero pay off to playing the long game. The

Could this be why our politics are so messed up? When you're only worried about being re-elected in 4 years, there's zero pay off to playing the long game. The only thing that matters is the short game. Yet as citizens we need governments who will eat their proverbial veggies and show up to the proverbial gym every day. (Btw this applies to the whole political spectrum, so don't go thinking that because you're right/left wing you're superior to the other.) I don't have a solution to this. Obviously we don't want people leading the country for life (those tend to become tyrants and dictators). But if the negative effects of the short game are so obvious on a personal level, extrapolate that to entire nations and the world as a whole. Climate change? No one in charge when it matters will be around when we pay the price. Long game issue. National debt? We're so in debt already, what's wrong with a little more? Long game issue. Education? Please, it takes 20 damn years before the kids show up for work. Long game issue. Poverty? Even Jesus didn't think we could solve that one. Long game issue. Healthcare? Why should I take the political risk today when most of my consituents won't get sick until I'm gone? Long game. Etc.