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The attention span of politics is directly correlated to the attention span of the voter base which is vaporizing its frontal cortex with endless scroll social media. No one is incentivized to take an unsexy long-term approach because a) some things are so fucked that there are no elegant policy solutions b) any potential benefits would take too long to reap c) economic illiteracy is rarely punished d) voters can't agree on what the core problems are So we just get a circus