This is a function of the form and culture of government - our current system, of professional politicians, is ruinous.
I have numerous thoughts on what would be better, such as sortition, or devolution and administrative federalisation, but as long as we have party politics and elections on mass scales, we will have corruption baked into the system. What we have worked reasonably well before mass communication, but with each step of communications technology, one of the core principles of representative democracy - representation - erodes, as the battles become tribal and personality driven on vast scales, and defy ration and reason.
I think we probably agree on a lot of things! I would prefer to increase the relative power of local councils and often think about how to implement some version of sortition. You might be interested in the concept of "random ballot" (that's the Wikipedia page title) if you don't already know it.
I have numerous thoughts on what would be better, such as sortition, or devolution and administrative federalisation, but as long as we have party politics and elections on mass scales, we will have corruption baked into the system. What we have worked reasonably well before mass communication, but with each step of communications technology, one of the core principles of representative democracy - representation - erodes, as the battles become tribal and personality driven on vast scales, and defy ration and reason.