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Along those lines, I suspect a better system would have indefinite term lengths but popular recall and veto mechanisms.
The issue is highlighted by Hans-Herman Hoppe in "rent vs owner" idea.
Politicians only "rent the use of power" so their incentives are all short term. Their goal become to bust out the current nation state for their short term gain (ie. they join congress with $0 and leave with $400M and who cares what happens afterwards).
Whereas with an "owner" (ie. king), it is considered their property. Therefore they have long term generational interest in preserving the value of their property so it forces long-term thinking.
I agree, but I think there’s room for a pressure relief valve that’s less extreme than full blown revolution.
Its easy to fault the voter (I do it all the time), but to be fair democracy is a dumb unworkable system at scale.
The idea that "joe the plumber" needs to keep abreast of all the technical minutae and constantly engage in the political process otherwise they are told "too bad, you voted wrong so now we steal from you" shows how unworkable the system is.
There is no simple fix from where we are at, but in retrospect monarchies in which people can freely move from jurisdiction to jurisdiction are probably a better model at scale.