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It's just the way it has to be in democracy, due to people being generally pretty stupid. Democracy tends to stop anything too terrible happening (although not always), but it also means that they'll never be all that great either. After all, it's not only politicians who are often corrupt and inept - it occurs in all walks of life but of course politicians are an easy and obvious target.
Long story short, they're drawn from a pool of mediocrity and voted for by that same pool, so no surprise what the outcome is.
Long story short, they're drawn from a pool of mediocrity and voted for by that same pool, so no surprise what the outcome is.