I believe that the main function of voting isn't putting politics in the government, but kicking them from it. "Candidates" is derived from "clean" in Latin. Time will make them dirty, people will end perceiving it and choosing the lesser evil.
The rules that prevent a president from too many reelections are similarly befeficial, and a lot cheaper even if not enough.
Actually, it's meant as "brilliant" or "brilliantly white", since candidates during the elections to public offices in Rome walked around with their different levels of entourage wearing togas that had been whitened to the extreme with chalk.
The rules that prevent a president from too many reelections are similarly befeficial, and a lot cheaper even if not enough.