Good point. I would suggest that a better model for discussing politics is even more important than a better role model. Current political discourse is so full

Good point. I would suggest that a better model for discussing politics is even more important than a better role model. Current political discourse is so full of emotionally laden words, shibboleths, and moralizing that discussions inevitably go down the same paths over and over again. So tedious and unproductive. This indicates to me that the current model is broken and it is time to look elsewhere. What if, for instance, we used software systems engineering as model and thought about political systems in terms of high-availability, reliability, and security? Too-big-to-fail can be thought of as a Single Point of Failure, a system attribute we know works against availability and security. We might further think of corruption as an attack on the system, and hence, plan mechanisms to minimize the "blast radius". And so on. Other models might work too, for example, physics. My point is that the current model of political discourse is weirdly self-limiting. Something very odd seems to happen as soon as one adopts it. It's as if people immediately forget the knowledge they have outside politics. I have seen this many times in the political writing of otherwise very intelligent scientists and engineers--their technical ideas are creative and rigorous but their political ideas banal and trite.