Yes, politicians are visionless sociopaths, so what we really need to do is to put the government they lead in charge of more things. Every single one of the listed elements of wide spread well-being will require greatly expanded government powers in the hands of the sociopaths to bring to fruition. This is the blind spot for the left for their entire program. They are going to have to make people do shit they don't want to do, and how is that accomplished? With the police doing the bidding of the sociopaths.