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I think you are giving most of them too much credit.
A life of privilege and specific training to do well in certain areas leaves you with a lot of people who are highly educated but lacking general and/or emotional intelligence who then go about ignoring what information they have in favour of benefiting their backers and political class peers at the expense of those they're meant to be serving.
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The other possibility of course is that running a country (which means of necessity running an economy that can support the country before you even start to think about social changes) in a world that is massively interconnected, dependent on supranational corporations and in the short to medium term can only keep functioning by burning fuel that will kill it looks easy when it's not you doing it, and is pretty much impossible when it is.
That's not to excuse cunts making decisions to benefit their cronies because that's a whole other thing, but government is basically making what based on what information you have is the least worst decision and being called a cunt for doing it by people who have even less idea of the problems than you do.