Hot take: The leaders of our countries should have been successful business owners at one point. Reasons:

1) Politics is a zero sum game, so those who's main achievement in life is their political career are not used to collaborative, win/win solutions that countries need.|

They prefer to conserve, rather than build. 

They use deceit to advance instead of focus on using positive skills and delivering a superior product.

In my opinion that's why the left (more career politicians than the right) plays dirtier than the right, as the values of the right are focused on personal responsibility, whereas the left focuses on taking others resources, rather than how to get their own...

And continually making more rules to impede those who work hard and get ahead.

2) We need politicians who have a full perspective of life.

If you've never started a business from scratch and won big, you have a very limited understanding  about what it takes to succeed in business, and think that those who win did so due to some unfair reason.

If you have succeeded in business you not only have the perspective of being an employee at some point, but also of business owners...

And you are acutely aware of the problems caused by overzealous regulators and workplace lawmakers who stifle innovation, which is business owners know, is the main way to win as a company and as a nation.