> Maybe we should vote for people who are financially literate, can think long term, and can "conserve" rather than politicians who promise endlessly?

These people do not exists. If a politician ran on such a platform, they would never get elected.

The fact is in modern democracies like in the EU or in the US there are simply too many people who rely on the status quo directly or indirectly.

Its almost comical, in France politicians have run, got elected and have swept the debt problem under the rug for the last 40 years, then they leave office and suddenly decide that the debt is a massive problem but that there was nothing they could do about while in office so they never did anything but now they speak about it.

And they all do it. Left, right, center, it's all the same.