These politicians are a dying breed. They just don;t know it yet. Technology is getting better and better at automating more and more of the work that we needed governments for. And now with decentralized consensus and open communities, kinda like the one here, we're finding ways to create societies managed by agnostic algorithms.
Soon we'll have AI that we can condition to meet the requirements of our societies. "Decentralized tribes" as Brock Pierce put it managed through direct consensus. None of this man in the middle bullshit that our current governmental models work on.
Projects like BitNation give me hope that this could actually be a reality and not just my manic pipe dream.