In the UK anyway, I feel many of these problems stem from the money going into the system and from our leaders entering politics as a career. Starmer for example doesn't appear to have any principles or values. He appears more concerned with winning the next election than he does doing anything else
This is a huge problem. @georgemonbiot.bsky.social writes about how our politics have been taken over by sociopaths.
The office of the PM devolved into little more than an upper middle management position between the Wilson & Heath governments. The days are long gone when someone like a Churchill could enter office & make seismic shifts in government policy. John Smith was attempting to roll this back before dying