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Some politicians do, its just they tend to burn themselves out fighting against the neverending tide of the self-interested ones.
It doesn't help that often they have little to no support structure because most people assume they're corrupt by default.
I think that's typically considered the difference between a "politican" and a "statesman" (or statesperson)
Politicians care about winning elections and staying in power, whereas statesmen actually give a damn about the future over getting eternally re-elected on empty promises.
The problem is that politicians run the show, so if statesman (or legislators) want to get things done, they have to play the political game anyways. Becoming politicians by default.
This kinda sounds like the whole few bad apples thing.
Are you suggesting the politicians who try to help people out, or who care about the public, are the "few bad apples"?
I mean at the same time that's meant to be the advantage of a democracy
When everyone is pushing their own self interests, more often than not things ought to average out close to a compromise everyone can accept
Which is, frankly, a ridiculous concept. If you only ever consider your own wants, compromise (a necessary concept in any non-authoritarian system) is impossible.
Balance of self interests is literally the entire concept of politics and economics