When is the last time a politician did something selfless and noble?
When is the last time a bureaucracy straightened up its act to provide service to the people it was set up to serve?
Think about it.
Not all politicians are bad news, but many, if not most, are.
Somewhere through time, the most selfish, greedy and corrupt among people got themselves elected in the town halls, the parliaments, the congresses of the world.