Our politicians are for the most part reactionary instead of proactive. They have their careers in mind far more often than the lives of those people they are supposed to be representing and fighting for. And who dares go against the status quo anyway? Why would you do that if you're an incumbent? Just shut up and stick to the script and react to things as they come up, every once in a while kiss a baby and hold up a rainbow flag, say some nice things, and you're on your way to a sweet sweet pension.
These people aren't leading us, they are leading their own careers. The people are an afterthought, something that's in your way to your next re-election, and not the citizens you're supposed to be working for.
So yeah, what plans? The only plans our politicians ever have are dinner plans. Yeah, they might plop down a 20,000 page document that's supposed to be a plan for infrastructure improvements in such and such city for the next decade.. But that's all reactionary with some occasional mandated attempts at progress thrown in for good measure.
What's my big idea for replacing career politicians? I don't have one. But I might vote for a party that promises to plan ahead properly, with transparency, without sticking to any one ideology and just promising to analyze the issues using a fact based approach.
Maybe the solution is more affordable housing. Maybe it's to raise taxes for foreign property owners. Maybe it's to ban them completely. Maybe it's some combination of all that.. Maybe it's something else entirely. I have no idea, but maybe some experts in these fields could model these ideas and we could have a discussion among experts as to what options are on the table that might actually have a chance of working in some way? Then the politicians can weigh the options and/or present them to the electorate. That way you'er not always going to do the right thing, but in 20 years you'd have done more things right than using our current approach.. which seems to be: "Let the richest people figure this out".
