How a nation progresses, an imaginary conversation

 I'm cheating a little by writing down the characters, realized my exploration of these structures isn't advanced enough to not use the crutch. I'll get rid of these when I get better. Fiction, obv.

 
Characters
A: He is a farmer, an important one, who is still in the farming business. He is rich, but still a farmer.
B: She is a mystic spiritual person.
C: She works for a large insurance company, her job is to manage risk.
D: He is a army man.

No, our problem is not that there is no commitment towards solving the problem, our problem is one of stability. It's like every five years we plant seeds of hope, thinking they will fruit to make a developed, civilized properous nation, and every five years the flood of political corruption and ineptness washes our dreams and hopes away, leaving us with nothing but the disappointment in the form of sand where nothing grows.

Ahh don't worry about things so much, you have to have faith. They say the universe taps into your psychic energy, if you are hopeful about things, and exude positivity about the outcomes you can influence the outcomes positively. If all your actions are colored by your fear of failure and being disappointed again that's what you're getting obviously. To change the world you must change yourself first, alright?

Okay okay I see what you mean, that the public needs to improve so they deserve a better leader. And we have done that haven't we. Now almost every child can read. Our young men and women have gone all abroad and have come up with great knowledge of the world. They have come back because they are hopeful about the world. And yet, where is progress, I'm telling you, plants can only grow in fertile soil. If the firmament is rotten, nothing good can grow, only molds and insects.

Perhaps the two of you haven't considered evaulating it with a more analytical eye? Consider all these costs, you know the bribes you have to pay, the money that goes away into political scandals and security issues all of that as a cost of doing business okay. So in other countries you pay taxes, you pay licensing fee, here you pay external expenses too. And evaluate that against your gains. If you're ahead then you're still in the green no, it's seeing those socio-political factors as external to the system that's the problem. If we learn to see them as variables in our risk assessment, then we can adjust our priors accordingly. Then it won't be a matter of good or evil or happiness or disappointment, but merely optimizing for the better. A bad politician? That means your salary is being decreased by seventy percent, get rid of that person if you want to earn more. A national bribery scandal? It's taking away twenty percent of your salary. And so on and so on. Quantifying these factors can play a useful role.

You all are talking about these complicated things but for me there's two things. There's where our nation needs to be, and there's people who want to stop us from getting there for their personal interests. They're our enemies. I don't mean we should fight them and eliminate them, but we should stop seeing them as a part of our system but as external threat that needs to be reconciled with. And physical impact or use of force is only one option. Diplomacy is useful when you're unable to win with certainty. Or threat of force even, let them know that if they screw the people over, they're going to go to the jail, or worse. That way they understand not to mess with the wrong people.

Okay but that's exactly what I'm complaining about. Seeing others as enemies is the part of the problem. We are all part of the same giant cosmic web, we're strings of energy pulsating, connecting and disconnecting with one another. If we destroy other threads, it is our web that gets weaker, that doesn' benefit any of us. Our goal should be to grow together, as a whole spirit, not selfishly.