Hard to blame politicians for wanting to get elected again, though. This is a systemic issue with democracy. And even an approach with more direct democracy (in

Hard to blame politicians for wanting to get elected again, though. This is a systemic issue with democracy. And even an approach with more direct democracy (in contrast to the indirect, parliamentarian democracy) shows that there are issues with denial of reality on the voters side (see for example the recent Swiss vote for the 13th month pension).